1. Each team is allowed one, 30-second timeout during a game (60 minutes of regulation time plus overtime).

2. Only a skater designated by the coach or the coach himself may ask the referee for the team timeout during a stoppage in play.

3. All players on ice are allowed to go to their respective benches during a team timeout.

4. Both teams can take their timeout at the same stoppage of play, but the team taking the second timeout must notify the referee of its intentions before the end of the first timeout.

5. A team cannot call a timeout during the penalty-shot shootout, before a period has started, or after a period has ended.

6. A team timeout cannot be called after player changes have been completed.

7. A team timeout cannot be called after a false faceoff.

8. A team timeout cannot be called during game action.