A bench penalty is a penalty which is a penalty which is usually assessed to the team as opposed to a particular player. Many of these penalties require the coach selecting any player that was on the ice to serve the time in the penalty box.
List of Bench Minor penalties[]
- Abuse of officials
- Delay of game
- Deliberate illegal substitution
- Face-off violation
- Illegal substitution
- Improper starting line-up
- Interference from players’ or penalty bench
- Interference with an official
- Leaving bench at end of period
- Refusing to start play
- Stepping onto ice during period (Coach)
- Throwing objects onto ice
- Too many men on the ice
- Unsportsmanlike conduct