Ice Hockey. Rule book - Rule 168. Unsportsmanlike conduct

Rule 168. Unsportsmanlike conduct

IIHF

Definition. A player or team official who commits a violation of the rules pertaining to sportsmanship, fair play, and respect.

See also Rule 116 – Abuse of Officials

1. Minor Penalty

1) An identifiable player who commits a violation of the rules of sportsmanship, fair play, and respect.

2) An identifiable player who uses obscene, profane, or abusive language or actions directed to any person on the ice or anywhere in the rink.

3) An identifiable player who celebrates with or congratulates a teammate after an injury to an opponent.

4) An attacking skater who sprays a goaltender who freezes the puck for a whistle.

2. Bench-Minor Penalty

1) An unidentifiable player or team official who commits a violation of the rules of sportsmanship, fair play, and respect.

2) An unidentifiable player or team official who celebrates with or congratulates a teammate after an injury to an opponent.

3) An unidentifiable player or any team official who uses obscene, profane, or abusive language or actions directed to any person on the ice or anywhere in the rink.

4) An unidentified player or team official who is off the ice and throws a stick or any other object onto the ice to protest a call.

3. Misconduct Penalty

1) A player who shoots the puck after a whistle or end of a period.

2) If a violation is flagrant or if a player continues his unsportsmanlike conduct.

3) A player who persists in using obscene, profane, or abusive language or actions directed to any person on the ice or anywhere in the rink for which he has already been assessed a minor penalty.

4) A player who persists in inciting an opponent into taking a penalty.

5) A player who enters the opponent’s players’ bench for any reason other than accidental.

4. Game-Misconduct Penalty

1) A team official who persists in any action for which he has already been assessed a bench-minor penalty.

2) A player or team official who uses obscene, profane, or abusive language or actions directed to any person on the ice or anywhere in the rink for which he has already been assessed a minor or bench-minor penalty. When this type of conduct occurs after the expiration of the game, on or off the ice, the game-misconduct penalty can be applied without the necessity of having previously assessed a minor or bench-minor penalty.

5. Minor/Bench Minor and Game-Misconduct Penalties

1) An identifiable player or team official who is off the ice and throws a stick or any other object onto the ice to protest a call.

6. Match Penalty

1) A player or team official who threatens, makes racial or ethnic slurs, hateful, discriminatory, or sexual remarks, spits, smears blood on any person.

2) A player or team official who makes any obscene gesture or actions to any person on the ice or anywhere in the rink immediately before, during, or immediately after the game.

3) A player who swings his stick at a spectator or anyone other than an opponent.

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