2012-14 EDITION - Amateur Athletic Union

182 Pages·2011·1.25 MB·English

National Governing Body

THE OFFICIAL
RULES OF
INLINE HOCKEY
Grass Roots Orginization
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Contents

Section 1 – Playing Area
Rule 1 – Rink ............................................................................................ 9
Rule 2 – Goal Posts and Nets ........................................................... 11
Rule 3 – Benches .................................................................................. 12
Rule 4 – Signal and Timing Devices ............................................. 13
Section 2 – Teams
Rule 5 – Team ........................................................................................ 17
Rule 6 – Captain and Alternate Captains ................................... 18
Rule 7 – Starting Line-up .................................................................. 19
Rule 8 – Injured Players .................................................................... 20
Section 3 – Equipment
Rule 9 – Uniforms ................................................................................ 24
Rule 10 – Sticks ..................................................................................... 26
Rule 11 – Goalkeeper’s Equipment .............................................. 29
Rule 12 – Illegal Equipment ............................................................ 32
Rule 13 – Puck ....................................................................................... 32
Rule 14 – Adjustment to Clothing or Equipment ................... 33
Section 4 – Types of Penalties
Rule 15 – Calling of Penalties ......................................................... 37
Rule 16 – Minor Penalties ................................................................ 39
Rule 17 – Bench Minor Penalties .................................................. 40
Rule 18 – Double-minor Penalties ............................................... 40
Rule 19 – Coincidental Penalties................................................... 40
Rule 20 – Major Penalties ................................................................ 42
Rule 21 – Match Penalties ................................................................ 43
Rule 22 – Misconduct Penalties .................................................... 44
Rule 23 – Game Ejection Penalties ............................................... 45
Rule 24 – Game Misconduct Penalties ........................................ 45
Rule 25 – Penalty Shot ....................................................................... 46
Rule 26 – Awarded Goals ................................................................. 50
Rule 27 – Delayed Penalties ............................................................ 51
Rule 28 – Goalkeeper’s Penalties .................................................. 52
Rule 29 – Supplementary Discipline ........................................... 54
Rule 30 – Signals .................................................................................. 54
Section 5 – Officials
Rule 31 – Appointment of Officials .............................................. 61
Rule 32 – Referees ............................................................................... 61
Rule 33 – Chief Referee ..................................................................... 64
Rule 34 – Official Scorer ................................................................... 64
Section 5 – Officials (cont.)
Rule 35 – Game Timekeeper ............................................................. 65
Rule 36 – Penalty Timekeeper ..............................................................67
Rule 37 – Goal Judge ........................................................................... 68
Rule 38 – Abuse of Officials.............................................................. 69
Rule 39 – Physical Abuse of Officials............................................. 73
Section 6 – Physical Fouls
Rule 40 – Boarding ...............................................................................77
Rule 41 – Charging ...............................................................................77
Rule 42 – Checking from Behind ................................................... 78
Rule 43 – Elbowing .............................................................................. 79
Rule 44 – Fighting ................................................................................ 79
Rule 45 – Head-butting ..................................................................... 82
Rule 46 – Kicking ................................................................................. 82
Rule 47 – Kneeing ................................................................................. 83
Rule 48 – Roughing and Body Checking ..................................... 83
Rule 49 – Slew-footing ....................................................................... 84
Rule 50 – Throwing Equipment ..................................................... 84
Section 7 – Restraining Fouls
Rule 51 – Holding ................................................................................. 89
Rule 52 – Hooking................................................................................ 89
Rule 53 – Interference.............................................................................. 90
Rule 54 – Tripping ................................................................................ 93
Section 8 – Stick Fouls
Rule 55 – Butt-ending......................................................................... 97
Rule 56 – Cross-checking .................................................................. 97
Rule 57 – High-sticking ..................................................................... 98
Rule 52 – Hooking....................................................................... (89) 99
Rule 58 – Slashing ................................................................................ 99
Rule 59 – Spearing ............................................................................. 100
Section 9 – Other Fouls
Rule 60 – Delaying the Game ......................................................... 103
Rule 61 – Diving / Embellishment .............................................. 106
Rule 62 – Equipment ........................................................................ 106
Rule 63 – Forfeit of Game ............................................................... 106
Rule 64 – Handling Puck ................................................................ 107
Rule 65 – Illegal Substitution ........................................................ 109
Rule 66 – Interference with the Goalkeeper ............................ 110
Rule 67 – Leaving the Bench ........................................................... 113
Rule 68 – Premature Substitution ............................................... 116
Rule 69 – Refusing to Play the Puck ............................................ 116
Rule 70 – Refusing to Start Play .................................................... 117
Section 9 – Other Fouls (cont.)
Rule 71 – Too Many Men on the Rink......................................... 118
Rule 72 – Unsportsmanlike Conduct .......................................... 119
Section 10 – Game Flow
Rule 73 – Face-offs .............................................................................. 125
Rule 74 – Game and Intermission Timing ................................ 130
Rule 75 – Goals and Assists ............................................................. 130
Rule 76 – Hand Pass ........................................................................... 132
Rule 77 – High-sticking the Puck ................................................. 133
Rule 78 – Line Changes .................................................................... 134
Rule 79 – Overtime ............................................................................ 136
Rule 80 – Puck Out of Bounds....................................................... 137
Rule 81 – Start of Game and Periods ........................................... 138
Rule 82 – Time-outs ........................................................................... 139
Reference Tables
Table 1 – Summary of Penalties to Coaches and
Non-playing Club Personnel ................................ 143
Table 2 – Summary of Minor Penalties.................................. 144
Table 3 – Summary of Bench Minor Penalties .................... 145
Table 4 – Summary of Double-minor Penalties .................. 145
Table 5 – Summary of Major Penalties .................................. 146
Table 6 – Summary of Major Penalties That Result
in an Automatic Game Misconduct ................. 146
Table 7 – Summary of Major Penalties That Result in
an Automatic Game Misconduct When
There is an Injury ..................................................... 147
Table 8 – Summary of Match Penalties ............................... 147
Table 9 – Summary of Misconduct Penalties .................. 148
Table 10 – Summary of Game Misconduct Fouls
Included in the “General Category” ................. 149
Table 11 – Summary of Game Misconduct Fouls
Included in the “Stick-Related Category” ....... 150
Table 12 – Summary of Game Misconduct Penalties .......... 150
Table 13 – Summary of Penalty Shots ........................................... 151
Table 14 – Summary of Awarded Goals (When
Goalkeeper Has Been Removed for
an Extra Attacker) .................................................... 152
Table 15 – Summary of Goalkeeper Penalties .......................... 152
Table 16 – Goals Scored Against a Short-handed Team..... 153
Table 17 – Coincidental Penalties .............................................. 164
Table 18 – Interference on the Goalkeeper Situations ........ 170