7-4 Team penalties

[tjslax]

The wording in this section is a little confusing to me.

...a penalty...is called against someone other than a player in the game, the official shall select the in-home and assess the penalty time.

When the person committing the foul is a substitue, the foul shall be assessed against him in so far as the record is concerned and he may only re-enter the game subject to the same restrictions he would be under if he were a legal player on the field at the time the foul was committed...

Does this mean that if A11, on the bench, committs a foul-the in home serves the penalty time and A11 cannot re-enter the game until the in home is released? If so is also placed in the box to monitor his (potential) return to the game?

[eme]

The in-home serves for that on-the-bench A11's boorish actions. A11 resides on the bench or nearby until in-home serves out his (a11's) penance.

[tjslax]

sounds reasonable, thanks.

[LaxRef]

Another thing that this tells us is that A11 get's the foul recorded in his name even though he doesn't serve. If it's a personal, it counts toward the limit of 5. A USC counts toward the limit of 2. Otherwise the poor in-home could foul out or get ejected because his teammates are idiots.

[tjslax]

That's why when I coached I always had a...less skilled, attackman as a starter. He was promptly replaced at the first opportunity. This stopped a few cases of one of my best players being in the box over the years. (I always disguised it with the fact that I want to get others a chance to take part in the opening hand shakes etc.)

[LaxRef]

And the players didn't catch on that you only wanted third-line attackmen to get a chance to participate in the handshakes and not middies or defensemen? :chuckle:

Really, I don't know how big a deal this is, since usually your attackmen aren't participating much when you're man down. And does it really make much difference having your first-, second-, and fourth-best attackmen out there instead of your first-, second-, and third-best?

I guess if you have a huge drop-off and your in-home sits a lot, then it might make sense. If not, you might miss an early scoring opportunity by having the substandard attackman start the game.

[tjslax]

We had some pure athletes at attack and they were sometimes used to kill penalties. I never kicked myself for starting one of the other guys but, you definetly have to have the right player in there for the potential fast break off the opening faceoff.