Larry Latour writes: >2. In the Maine-BU second game Saturday (Maine 6 BU 1) there were an >awful lot of matching minors being called... seems like a waste of time >to me... A BRILLIANT, RADICAL IDEA! How about a penalty limit ala >foul limit in basketball... you go over the limit per period (3? 4?) >and you get another minute tacked on... players MIGHT be less >likely to get sucked into "mini-scuffles" and refs MIGHT pay more >attention to true fouls... of course I MIGHT be wrong, but... In Hockey North America, the adult recreational league I play in, there is such a rule. A player who is called for 4 minor penalties in a game will receive an automatic 10-minute misconduct. Any additional penalties will result in additional misconducts. This rule only applies to minor penalties because all major penalties carry a game misconduct in this league. Misconduct penalties do not count towards the limit. Pete Kester [log in to unmask]