Training for Score Keepers! Roles & Responsibilities! • Obtain playing roster for both teams • Record goals, assists, saves and penalties on official scoresheet • Ensure scoresheet is signed and distributed following the game DO:! DON’T:! • Pay attention to the game! • Question a judgment call by an • Remain impartial! official! • Respect all game participants! • Use profanity or abusive • Ask the referee when uncertain language! about penalty or time expiration! • Guess! ! • Openly cheer for one team! Remember, the Official Scorer is an Off-Ice Official! USA Hockey Scoresheet! List of Players! • A team can have as many as 20 players with a maximum of 18 skaters! • Each team must designate a Head coach who is responsible for the team! • Each team can have one Captain and up to 2 Alternate Captains! • Goalies can serve as either Captain or Assistant Captain but do not have the same privileges as a skater (status only)! • A list of players and corresponding numbers should be listed in the Home & Visitor sections of the scoresheet.! • Coaches, Assistant Coaches, Team Manager and contact information should also be listed! • Lists can be hand-written or applied via stickers to each page of the Scoresheet! ! List of Players (cont.)! Scoring! Note Period, time of the goal, goal scorer /assist & type! EV= Even strength! PP = Power Play! SH = Short-handed! EN = Empty Net! EA = Extra Attacker! PS = Penalty Shot! ! Penalties! Minor/Bench Minor Penalty! • 2-minute penalty; offending team (Team B) short-handed! • Bench minor: a player of the offending team (Team B) who was on the ice at the time of the infraction shall serve the penalty! • If the opposing team (Team A) scores a goal while the offending team (Team B) is short-handed, the offending team’s (Team B) penalty will end! • Coincidental minors: one player of each team is penalized at the same time! – Both players go to the penalty box and cannot leave until the first stoppage of play after the penalties expire! – Neither team plays short-handed! – Penalties do not need to be posted on the scoreboard! – Examples: Unsportsmanlike conduct, Holding, Roughing, Slashing, Tripping, Interference! Double Minor! • 4-minute maximum; offending team short-handed! • Count as 2 separate penalties! – Example: Unnecessary roughness! Penalties (cont.)! Major Penalty! • 5-minute penalty! • Offending team (Team B) plays short-handed! • The opposing team (Team A) can score as many goals as possible, but the penalty doesn’t end until after 5 minutes has elapsed! – Example: Boarding, Roughing! ! Misconduct Penalty! • 10-minute penalty! • Offending team (Team B) is NOT short-handed! • Offending player (Team B) cannot return to play until the first stoppage after the penalty expires! – Example: Disrespect to a Referee! ! Minor + Misconduct (aka 2-and-10)! • 2 penalties:! • 2 minute minor penalty; offending team (Team B) is shorthanded while alternate player serves 2-minute penalty! • 10 minute misconduct penalty; offending player (Team B) penalized for 2 minutes + 10 minutes and a whistle! Penalties (cont.)! Game Misconduct! • Offending player (Team B) is prohibited from further play in the game! • Automatically suspended for the next game! • Offending team (Team B) is NOT short-handed! • If a Team Official (Coach/Manager) receives a Game Misconduct they must leave the Player’s Bench immediately, may not direct play and is suspended for the next game! – Example: Checking from behind! ! Match Penalty! • Offending player (Team B) is prohibited from further play in the game.! • 5-minute penalty served by another player! • Offending player will be suspended from all USA Hockey games and practices until the case has been handled by the PVAHA authorities! • Offending team is NOT short-handed! • Offending player cannot return to play until the first stoppage after the penalty expires! – Example: Deliberate intent to injure! ! Major + Game Misconduct! • Required if injury results! – Example: Boarding + an Injury! ! Penalty Shot! Most commonly awarded if:! 1. A player, while in a scoring position, is fouled from behind and deprived of a scoring opportunity, or! 2. A defensive player grabs or falls on the puck when it is in the goal crease! • An offensive player (Team A) takes control of the puck at center ice and has the opportunity to skate one-on-one against the opposing goalie (Team B) with no other players involved! • The offended (Team A) team has the option to choose a Minor Penalty instead of a Penalty Shot.! Referee Signals! Referee Signals (cont.)! Recording Penalties! • Note the Period, offending player #, penalty called, # of minutes in the box, clock time and ultimately when the player returns to the ice.! • Certain penalties are recorded as two entries! • Example: (double minor & minor-misconduct [2-and-10])! • 15 team penalties = coach suspension! • 5 individual penalties=offending player suspended! Goalkeeping Stats! • Tally up shots on goal for each team for each period! • Note: It is recommended to keep the tally on a separate sheet of paper and then transcribed at the end of the period! • Watch for goalie changes mid-game! • Difference between Shots & Saves should equal the score! Post Game Responsibilities! • Referees to sign scoresheet! – On-Ice officials must make a brief written statement of all Game Misconduct and Match Penalties on the back side of the top copy! • Coaches sign scoresheet! • Give out the following copies:! – (Pink) Visiting team! – (White & Yellow) Ice Cards manager! – (Gold) Referee in the instance of a game misconduct/match penalty!.