7 - Special Game Rules Relating To Particular Grades
Special Rules for Senior B Divisions
Any suspensions, penalties or fines applied under "Special Rules for Senior B Divisions" are not able to be appealed.
Any suspensions, penalties or fines applied under "Special Rules for Senior B Divisions" are done so as an addition to any other IIHF, IHA or IHNSW suspensions, penalties or fines.
General Administrative Rules
- Senior B Division has a "no deliberate body checking" rule. This will be enforced in accordance with IIHF rule 541.
- Senior B Division grades will be determined at the beginning of the season by the Senior Committee.
- Senior B Division playoff structure will be determined at the beginning of the season by the Senior Committee.
- Only players registered in the Senior B category are eligible to play in the Senior B competition.
- Senior B division players are permitted to play a maximum of three (3) games in a full contact grade before becoming ineligible for Senior B division.
- Senior B division goalies are permitted to play a maximum of five (5) games in a full contact grade before becoming ineligible for Senior B division.
- Players, goalies and officials must have attained eighteen (18) years of age in order to be considered eligible for participation in Senior B division.
- Players are not permitted to play for more than one team in a Division.
- Players and goalies in a lower division may play into a higher division no more than a total of five (5) games and within their own club only.
- Players and goalies in a higher division are not permitted to play into a lower division.
- Goalies are interchangeable between teams and clubs. This is an exception to the rule preventing players from playing for multiple teams in the same division
but is not an exception for players playing into higher or lower divisions. This rule only applies when the player is playing as a goalie.
- Players and goalies are permitted to transfer from a higher division into a lower division if they have played no more than a total of five (5) games in the higher division team. Players and goalies are permitted to transfer to a different team in the same division. This is a permanent move and only one transfer per player is permitted per season.
- All Male players in Senior B Divisions MUST wear a half or full cage/half or full visor when on the ice.
Officiating Rules
- At the time of registration, each senior B division team must nominate a minimum of three (3) accredited referees from the active roster for the team to be accepted. Each team's nominated officials must collectively referee a minimum of ten (10) senior B or women's competition games each season in total. No more than one (1) inactive referee (who has refereed less than two games in the previous season) may be nominated by a team.
- Teams who do not comply with the previous rule will be subject to an automatic $500 club fine.
- In the event of a shortage of officials, teams will at the discretion of IHNSW, be allocated senior B and /or women's game to officiate. If a team fails to provide officials for the games they have been allocated, that team will lose two (2) competition points.
- Cancelled games in this Division will result in one (1) point per team. Games cancelled due to lack of Officials will not be rescheduled.
Penalty Minute Rules
- Any player in this grade that receives more than seven (7) minutes in minor penalties in any one game will be excluded from the rest of the game.
- Any player or bench official accruing three (3) Misconduct penalties under IIHF Rule 550 or 551 will receive an automatic two (2) game suspension; any further Misconduct penalties under IIHF Rule 550 or 551 will receive a further automatic two (2) game suspension.
- During the play-offs and finals any player or bench official assessed one (1) major penalty will be suspended for the remainder of the current game and the next game, any player or bench official assessed a further major penalty will be suspended for the remainder of the play-offs and finals.
- During the play-offs and finals any player or bench official accumulating two (2) misconduct penalties will be suspended for the next game and any player or bench official accumulating a further misconduct penalty will be suspended for the remainder of the play-offs and finals.
- Any player or bench official accruing a total of fifty (50) penalty minutes in one season will be excluded from participation in the/remainder of the play-offs and finals.
- Any player or bench official accruing a total of seventy-five (75) penalty minutes in one season (including play-offs and finals) will be suspended form the senior B competition for the remainder of the season and their registration will be reviewed by the senior B committee prior to the next season commencing. Any player or bench official excluded from participation in the play-offs and finals is ineligible to receive an IHNSW senior B award.
- Where suspensions cannot be served in the remainder of the current season, the suspension will be served in the following season.
- Any team accruing two hundred (200) penalty minutes in the regular season will lose two (2) competition points.
- Any team accruing two hundred and fifty (250) penalty minutes in the regular season will lose a further four (4) competition points.
- Any team accruing three hundred (300) penalty minutes in the regular season cannot participate in the play-offs and finals.