>After a particularly egregious fight in tonight's Vermont-Union game
Obviously I should have tried to pick up the NESN webcast. :-)
>the following penalties were called (snipped from
><http://www.collegehockeystats.com/boxes/muniver1.j27>):
>
>UNI-9 Jason Ralph (2-Charging) VER 2x7 4:46
>UNI-10 Bryant Westerman (2-Roughing) VER 2x8 4:46
>UNI-11 Bryant Westerman (5-Fighting) 4:46
>UNI-12 Bryant Westerman (5-Fighting) VER 2x9 4:46
>UNI-13 Bryant Westerman (10-Game Disqualification) 4:46
>UNI-14 Bryant Westerman (10-Game Disqualification) 4:46
>VER-12 Chris Hills (5-Fighting) 4:46
>VER-13 Chris Hills (10-Game Disqualification) 4:46
>
>After the last four cancel out, we're left with a 2, a 2, and a 5 for
>Union. Since Westerman's penalties have to be served successively, I
>would expect one of them (presumably the major) would be put on hold,
>and UVM would have had two minutes of 5-on-3 followed by a 5-minute major.
No, you've got it backwards. When a player gets a minor and a major at the same time, the major comes first. (Rule 4, Section 2, Subsection d, Paragraph 3)
So what you have, assuming no goals, is this:
4:46-6:46 Ralph's minor & Westerman's major+minor 5x3
[2:00 and 7:00 go on the clock]
6:46-9:46 Ralph's minor ends, Westerman's major runs 5x4
9:46-11:46 Westerman's major ends, his minor runs 5x4
So if no goals were scored, it would be 5-on-3 for two minutes, and 5-on-4
for five more minutes. But the five minutes is partly the major, and partly
the minor.
> As it turns out, they scored on that 5-on-3 (at 5:35), and
>according to the TV announcers it was then 5-on-4. And in fact a shot
>of the clock seemed to indicate 4:56 remaining on the major right
>after that.
At 5:35, Union had a minor and a major on the clock. In that case, Ralph should have been released, leaving Union with just Westerman's penalties in the box, for the remaining 6:11. (Rule 4, Section 2, Subsection c, Paragraph 3) The rule that the minor automatically terminates in this situation appears to be a new one.
In other words, mixing in the goal, here's what should have happened:
4:46 - Ralph's minor, Westerman's major+minor in the box 5x3
5:35 - UVM scores, release Ralph's minor 5x4
9:46 - Westerman's major ends, his minor starts 5x4
11:46 - Westerman's minor ends 5x5
The rule references come from the 2001 rule book as shown at:
http://www.ncaa.org/library/rules/2001_ice_hockey_rules_book.pdf
Hope this helps.
John
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