1. No team can have fewer than three skaters on ice at any time during game action.

2. Skaters must always return to the ice in the order of the expiry of their own penalties.

3. If a third or subsequent player of any team is assessed a penalty during regulation time which requires him to go to the penalty box, and two teammates are already serving penalties, the penalty time of the third player or any subsequent players will not start until the penalty time of one of the first two skaters has expired. The third or subsequent skaters must still enter the penalty box as soon as their penalties have been assessed, but they can be replaced on the ice by a substitute until their penalty time begins.

4. Once the first penalty of three or more skaters has elapsed, the skater cannot return to the ice until the first whistle after the expiration of his penalty.