Scott Biggar raised the following:
 
I am kind of confused over a situation that came up this weekend
during the championship game of the RIT tourney between RIT and
Fredonia.  As seen on Hockey-L and other places, one of the rules
changes this season dealt with coincidental minors.  It was my
understanding that the compromise rule was that the first set of
coincidental minors of a game would result on each team losing a
skater, ie 4 on 4.  But that every set of coincidental minors after
that would not result in the loss of a skater, ie each team would
remain at 5 on 5, etc.
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Not quite what the rules say (or mean).  It's not whether or not
there have been any coincidental minors previously in the GAME, but
whether or not there are any time penalties in progress at the time
of the stoppage of play.  Rule 4-2 e., paragraph one, says:
 
        When ONE minor penalty is assessed to ONE player of EACH
        team at the same stoppage of play, these penalties will be
        served without substitution provided there are no other
        penalties in effect and visible on the clock.
 
So each time this occurs in a game there will be a drop from 5 on 5
to 4 on 4.
 
Graeme