1. The taking of a penalty shot and the game action of the penalty-shot shootout are considered part of the game. Any penalty that might normally be assessed to players during game action are equally applicable during a penalty shot or a penalty-shot shootout.

1. If an attacking skater is on a breakaway and is fouled by an opponent from behind, or by the opposing goaltender, the skater will be awarded a penalty shot.

2. If the skater loses control or possession of the puck after being fouled, the referee will stop game action and award a penalty shot.

3. If the skater is fouled but still manages to maintain possession of the puck, the referee will delay the penalty call and allow the skater to complete his action.

4. If the fouled skater manages to score, the penalty shot will be cancelled. If the penalty being assessed was a minor penalty, it will also be cancelled by the goal, but if the penalty being assessed was a misconduct, major and automatic game misconduct, or match penalty, these will still be assessed.

5. If the referee signals a penalty shot, and before the play is whistled (because of a goal or to call the penalty shot) another foul is assessed to the same team, the additional penalty will be assessed regardless if the skater scores on either the play or the subsequent penalty shot.

6. If a foul occurs near the end of any period (regulation or overtime) and time expires on the scoreclock before the referee can award the penalty shot, the shot will still be taken.

Game situation 1: If A9 is on a breakaway and is fouled from behind by B5, the referee will award A9 a penalty shot and B5 will serve the automatic misconduct penalty.

Game situation 2: A skater from Team A is on a breakaway and is fouled from behind by B9. If the foul carries with it a major and automatic game-misconduct penalty or match penalty, the referee will award a penalty shot, and the skater of Team B who committed the foul will still be assessed the major and automatic game-misconduct penalty or match penalty.

Game situation 3: A skater from Team A is on a breakaway and is fouled from behind. If he falls on the ice but manages to get up and take a clear shot on goal, no penalty shot will be awarded. However, the minor penalty to Team B will still be assessed.

Game situation 4: A9 is on a breakaway and is tripped. If the puck goes free, and A7 controls the puck and takes a clear shot on goal (but does not score) no penalty shot will be awarded. However, the minor penalty to Team B will still be assessed.

Game situation 5: A6 is on a breakaway and is fouled from behind by B3. The referee signals a penalty shot, but before play is completed, a second infraction is signalled (either to B3 or to another skater on Team B). In this case, the penalty shot washes out the first infraction, but the skater on Team B committing the second infraction will still be penalized. He must go to the penalty box to serve the penalty regardless of the result of the penalty shot. Further, if Team B is already serving another minor penalty, then the team will still serve this penalty regardless of the result of the penalty shot and will play two men short.

Game situation 6: A10 is in the penalty box (penalty on scoreclock). A8 is to be assessed a slashing penalty, but before play is stopped Team B is awarded a penalty shot due to an additional foul by Team A. If Team B scores on the penalty shot, no skater from Team A returns to the ice and the penalty to A8 will still be assessed.

Game situation 7: If A9 is on a breakaway and B2, standing behind his goal net, dislodges it, the referee will award a penalty shot.

1. If a player or team official, on ice or off, shoots or directs a discarded or broken stick or any part of it or any other piece of equipment or object at the puck or puck carrier while play is in the defending zone of the player committing the foul, the referee will immediately award a penalty shot.

2. If a player or team official illegally enters the game from the players’ bench or any other part of the arena and interferes with an attacking skater who is on a breakaway, the referee will award the opposing team a penalty shot.

3. If a player or team official throws or shoots a stick or any part of it or any object, or who directs (with any part of his body) a stick or part of it or any object, in the direction of the puck or puck carrier who is on a breakaway, the referee will award the opposing team a penalty shot.

1. If a player deliberately displaces his goal frame from its normal position during the last two minutes of regulation time or at any time in overtime, the referee will award the opposing team a penalty shot.

2. If, in the last two minutes of regulation time or at any time in overtime, a team makes a deliberate illegal substitution to create a too-many- men situation, the referee will award the opposing team a penalty shot.

3. Deliberate illegal substitution occurs when a team intentionally sends extra skaters onto the ice during game action for the purpose of gaining an advantage, causing a stoppage in play, or preventing a goal.

4. Incorrect substitution during game action will not be considered deliberate illegal substitution. The offending team will be assessed a bench-minor penalty unless this becomes a tactic as in Rule 173-3.

5. If the captain of a team that is two men short in the last two minutes of regulation time or at any time in overtime requests a stick measurement that is not upheld, the referee will award a penalty shot against the team requesting the measurement.

1. If a player deliberately displaces his goal frame from its normal position when an attacking skater is on a breakaway, the referee will award the opposing team a penalty shot.

1. If a skater falls on, holds, gathers the puck into his body, picks up the puck with his hands, or conceals the puck with his hands from the ice in his team’s goal crease, the referee will award the opposing team a penalty shot.

2. The position of the puck, and not the skater, is the determining factor.

1. In cases where a skater is fouled in a manner that warrants a penalty shot, any skater on the team who was not about to be penalized can be named by the coach to take the shot.

2. The coach of the defending team is allowed to change goaltenders prior to a penalty shot, but the incoming goaltender is not allowed a warmup of any kind.

3. Should two penalty shots be awarded to the same team at the same stoppage of play (for two separate fouls), only one goal can be scored. Should the first penalty shot result in a goal, the second penalty shot is automatically cancelled, but the appropriate penalty is assessed for the second infraction. If the first shot is unsuccessful, the second shot is taken. The order of the penalty shots will be decided by the order of the infractions during game action.

4. Only a goaltender or backup goaltender is allowed to be the goaltender during a penalty shot or penalty-shot shootout.

5. A skater is allowed to be the goaltender during a penalty shot or penalty-shot shootout only if both the starting goaltender and the backup goaltender are injured or serving penalties which have removed them from the game.

1. The skaters of both teams must skate to their respective benches and leave the ice surface entirely, remaining there during the taking of the penalty-shot. Only the two opposing goaltenders defending the shots, the skater taking the shot, and the on-ice officials are allowed to be on the ice.

2. The referee places the puck on the centre-ice faceoff spot.

3. The skater taking the shot must be on his side of centre ice prior to the start of the penalty shot.

4. The goaltender must stay in his goal crease until the skater has touched the puck at centre ice. If the goaltender comes out of his goal crease before that instance, the referee will raise his arm and allow the shot to be taken. If the skater scores, the goal will stand. If he does not score, he will be allowed to re-take the penalty shot, and the goaltender will be issued a warning. If the goaltender leaves his goal crease a subsequent time against this skater on this shot, he will be assessed a misconduct penalty and a skater designated by the coach through the captain must go to the penalty bo10. If he does not score, the skater will be allowed to re-take the shot. For a third violation, a goal will be awarded to the skater taking the penalty shot.

5. If a goaltender commits a foul against a skater during a penalty shot and no goal is scored, the goaltender will be assessed the appropriate penalty and a skater designated by the coach through the captain must go to the penalty bo10. The shooter will be allowed to re-take the shot. If a goaltender commits a foul for a second time against this skater on this shot, and no goal is scored, the referee will assess the appropriate penalty as well as a misconduct penalty to the goaltender. The same skater will serve this penalty and another skater designated by the coach through the captain will serve the misconduct. The shooter will re-take the shot. For a third violation against this skater on this shot, if no goal is scored, a goal will be awarded.

6. If a goaltender commits a foul against the skater taking a penalty shot that is a major penalty the referee will assess a major and automatic game-misconduct penalty to the goaltender and the shot will be re-taken if the skater did not score. The goaltender is ruled off the ice for the remainder of the game, and he must go to the dressing room before the shot is repeated. The coach or team official, through the captain, will designate a skater to serve the five-minute penalty. Before the shot is repeated, the designated skater must go to the penalty box and remain there until the end of the penalty. The substitute goaltender will then face the skater for the re-taking of the penalty shot.

7. The penalty shot officially begins when the referee blows his whistle for the skater to start the shot. The skater must, within a reasonable time of hearing the referee’s whistle, play the puck and proceed towards his opponent’s goal line in continuous motion and attempt to score.

8. If the skater misses the puck and does not touch the puck on his way past it as it sits on the centre-ice faceoff spot, he can return and continue with the penalty shot. As soon as the skater touches the puck in any manner, the penalty shot can be said to have started.

9. Once the puck has left the skater’s stick and the shooting motion or attempt has been completed, the penalty shot is considered over. No goal can be scored by a second shot of any kind.

10. The skater is allowed to use the full width of the ice so long as he demonstrates continuous forward or lateral movement of both his body and the puck towards the goal net.

11. The penalty shot is considered complete once:

Game situation 1: If a skater’s shot hits the protective glass behind the goal net, bounces back, hits the goaltender on the back, and goes into the net, the goal will not count.

Game situation 2: If a skater’s shot rebounds off the goaltender, hits the skater taking the shot, and goes into the goal net, the goal will not count.

Game situation 3: A skater attempts a shot at the goal net but makes no contact with the puck, but the puck continues to move in the direction of the goal net. If the skater then takes another shot and scores, the goal will count.

1. If a player from the opposing team interferes with or distracts a skater taking the penalty shot, and because of such actions the shot fails, the referee will allow the skater to re-take the penalty shot and assess a misconduct penalty to the offending player.

2. If a team official from the players’ bench of the defending team interferes with or distracts a skater taking the penalty shot, and because of such actions the shot fails, the referee will allow the skater to re-take the penalty shot and assess a game-misconduct penalty to the offending official.

3. The ‘spin-o-rama’ move in which a skater makes a 360-degree turn as he approaches the goal net is not allowed.

4. The ‘lacrosse-like’ manoeuvre in which a skater flips the puck onto the blade of his stick and skates with it in this fashion is not allowed.

5. If any of the following occurs, the goal will count:

Game situation 1: If a skater breaks his stick during the course of taking a penalty shot, there are four possible rulings: *1. If he scores as the stick breaks, the goal will count; *2. If he misses as the stick breaks, the shot is considered complete; *3. If his stick breaks, and then he shoots and scores, the goal will not count. *4. If he breaks his stick any time prior to shooting, the shot is considered complete.

1. For the referee to award a goal without the puck going into the goal net, the defending goaltender must have been removed from the ice for an extra skater prior to the infraction.

2. A goal will be awarded if a goaltender has been removed from the ice and the puck is in the three-dimensional space of the goal crease and a skater from his team deliberately:

Game situation 1: The goaltender on Team A has been removed for an extra skater and A3 is lying in the crease when the puck is shot under him. If he makes no attempt to cover the puck, fall on the puck, or gather the puck in his body, but the puck becomes frozen under his body, the referee will not award a goal unless A3 made a deliberate attempt to cover the puck.

1. If a goaltender has been substituted for a skater and a player from that team leaves any object in front of his goal net, and the puck hits that object, preventing the puck from entering the goal net, a goal will be awarded.

2. If a goaltender leaves his stick or other equipment or piles snow or other objects in front of his goal net prior to coming off the ice to be substituted by a skater, and any of such objects prevent the puck from entering the goal net, a goal will be awarded.