TABLE OF CONTENTS IIHF OFFICIAL RULE BOOK 2023/24 – SECTION 04 49 TYPES OF PENALTIES 20.2. SHORT-HANDED Although a Major Penalty does cause a Team to be “short-handed”, the penalized Player serving the Major Penalty does not leave the Penalty Box when the opposing Team scores a goal. The Player must wait for the entire Major Penalty to expire before they are permitted to exit the Penalty Box. 20.3. SUBSTITUTION When a Player has been assessed a Major Penalty and has been removed from the game or is injured, the offending Team must place a substitute in the Penalty Box immediately. They may then legally exit the Penalty Box when the Major Penalty has expired. 20.4. AUTOMATIC GAME MISCONDUCT PENALTY An “Automatic Game Misconduct” shall be applied to any Player who has been assessed a second Major Penalty, or a second Misconduct Penalty in the same game. An “Automatic Game Misconduct” shall also be applicable whenever a Player is assessed a Major Penalty for any of the infractions listed in the Reference Tables. When a Major and “Automatic Game Misconduct” are assessed, the Player shall be ruled off the ice for the balance of the game, but a substitute shall be permitted to replace the suspended Player after five (5) minutes have elapsed. ➔ For more information refer to Appendix IV – Tables Overview – Table 6. 20.5. INFRACTIONS A list of the infractions that can result in a Major Penalty being assessed can be found in Tables 5, 6 and 7. ➔ For more information refer to Appendix IV – Tables Overview – Tables 5, 6 and 7. 20.6. ON-ICE VIDEO REVIEW OF MAJOR PENALTIES Referees shall review all plays that result in the assessment of a Major Penalty for the purpose of confirming (or modifying) their original call on the ice. Exception to this rule is that situations under Rule 46 – Fighting can only be reviewed if they falls under Rule 46.5 – Dangerous puncher – “Sucker puncher”. No other situations under Rule 46 – Fighting can be reviewed.. Such reviews will be conducted exclusively by the Referee(s) on the ice in consultation with other On-ice Official(s), as appropriate, using the technology (for example, a handheld tablet or a television or computer monitor) specified in and provided pursuant to: ➔ Rule 38.5 – Process for Reviewing. Communication between the Video Review Operation and the On-ice Officials shall be limited to contact between the appropriate Video Review Consultant and the Referee to ensure the Referee is receiving any and all video they might request, as well as the appropriate replay angles they may need to review the penalty call. There shall be no contact or consultation except between the On-ice Official(s) and the Video Review Operation. The Referee shall only have the following options following Video Review of their own call: (I) confirming their original Major Penalty call; or (II) reducing their original Major Penalty call to a lesser penalty for the same infraction. (III) nullifying the original Major Penalty altogether. Note: This rule is only applied in certain IIHF Championships. ➔ For more information refer to Appendix V – Technical Requirements. »For more information refer to IIHF Sport Regulations. 04 SECTION · TYPES OF PENALTIES
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