On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, Mike Machnik wrote:
> At 10:07 PM -0500 2/4/97, Rick McAdoo wrote:
> > I have a question about accounting for penalty minutes. The numbers
> > produced for the Beanpot games at the Fleet Center did not include any
> > minutes for the various misconducts and disqualifications handed out,
> > while most of the college game boxes I have seen do include these.
> > They are usually assigned 10 minutes each, even for game DQ's, in those
> > cases. Is there any hard and fast rule, or does everyone do it
> > differently?
>
> Well, since the game involved two Hockey East teams, I presume the penalty
> minutes were done the HE way. Ins ome cases this differs from league to
> league.
>
> It would depend on whether the "misconducts" were 10 minute misconducts or
> game misconducts. A 10 minute misconduct is one penalty for 10 minutes
> everywhere. However, in HE, a game disqualification goes in the books as
> one penalty for 0 minutes. So does a game misconduct.
>
> Is it possible that the "misconducts" were game misconducts and thus
> counted as 0 minutes each? I'd have to see the game summary to know.
>
> BTW, in the CCHA at least, I believe that game disqualifications are
> counted as one penalty for 10 minutes. Same with game misconducts. But if
> I am wrong, hopefully someone will correct me. And perhaps others will
> know how this is recorded in the ECAC and WCHA.
I don't know if there is a league ruling, but when I did game summaries
for UND we counted game DQ's and misconducts as 10 minute penalties.
Vindy
Let's Drop the Puck
>
> It gets even more confusing when you have games between teams from
> different conferences. For example, in a CCHA-HE game, I am pretty sure
> that regardless of what the box score says, the CCHA team will record the
> penalties in their team statistics the CCHA way, while the HE team will do
> it the HE way.
>
> Just another example of how the rule book's ambiguity leads to differing
> interpretations...
>
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