7 - Special Game Rules Relating To Particular Grades

Special Rules for Senior B Divisions

Senior B Division has a ’no deliberate body checking’. This will be enforced in accordance with IIHF rule 541.

Any player accruing a total of 75 penalty minutes in one season (including playoffs) will be excluded from participation in the playoffs and finals.

Any player accruing a total of 100 penalty minutes in one season (including playoffs) will be suspended from the Senior B competition for the remainder of the season.

Team managers will be responsible for monitoring cumulative player penalty minutes to ensure that players serve their required suspensions or exclusions from play-offs and finals.

There can be no appeal for cumulative penalty minute suspensions.

Any player in this Division that receives more than seven minutes in minor penalties in any one game will be excluded from the rest of that game. In applying this rule, only personal penalties are counted; i.e.: a two and ten penalty is counted as two.

Any team accruing 250 penalty minutes in the regular season, prior to the playoffs, will lose two competition points.

Any team accruing 300 penalty minutes in the regular season, prior to the playoffs, will lose an additional four competition points.

Any team accruing 350 penalty minutes in the regular season, prior to the playoffs, will lose an additional six competition points.

Any team accruing 400 penalty minutes in one season will be referred to the Executive for further action

Where suspensions cannot be served in the remainder of the current season, the suspension will be served in the following season. Team managers will be responsible for monitoring player penalty minutes to ensure that players serve there required suspensions. There can be no appeal for cumulative penalty minute suspensions.

Players currently registered and playing in a contact league are not eligible to play in Senior B Division.

Senior B division players are permitted to play a maximum of three games in a full contact grade before becoming ineligible for Senior B division. (This rule does not affect eligibility for selection to a State Team to compete at a National Championship).

Senior B Division grades will be determined at the beginning of the season by the Senior B Division Committee.

Players (and officials) must have attained 18 years of age in order to be considered eligible for participation in these Divisions.

At time of registration, each Senior B Division team must nominate a minimum of 2 accredited Referees and 1 accredited Linesman, for the team to be accepted. Nominees must be playing members of the teams. New teams (with more than 50% of their players having never been registered before) may supply 1 accredited Referee and 2 accredited Linesmen instead. Each team’s nominated officials must officiate a minimum of 2 games throughout the season or they will be unable to qualify as nominated officials during the following season. Volunteering for games and not being allocated them will however be taken into account when determining future eligibility.

Referee Co-ordinators at each home club will be responsible for liaising with the IHNSW Referee Administrator to finalise allocations. Ultimately however each team will be responsible for ensuring that officials are provided to cover games that they are allocated. If a team fails to provide Officials for the games they have been allocated, that team will lose 2 competition points.

Cancelled games in this Division will result in one point per team. Games cancelled due to lack of Officials will not be rescheduled.

Players are not permitted to play for another team in the same Division.

Players and Goalies in a lower division may play into a higher division for a total of 5 games.

Players in a higher division are not permitted to play into a lower division.

Players are permitted a permanent move from a higher division into a lower division if they have played less than 5 games in the higher division team. This is only permitted once a season, and players cannot return to play in the higher division.

Players are permitted to transfer to a different team in the same division once in a season. This is a permanent move and only one transfer is permitted per season.Teams in the Senior B division must have a Goalkeeper to register the team.

Senior B Goalkeepers are interchangeable between teams and clubs competing in the same division of the Senior B League. Both teams must agree on the use of the alternate Goalkeeper.

Senior B Goalkeepers can play up into a higher Senior B division as Goalkeepers within their own club only.

To try and minimise conflicts between players and clubs with the number of ”home away" games in the Senior competition, the venue of playoffs will be determined by the Senior committee. If teams have a preference for a particular venue, they should submit their preferences to the Senior committee via their delegate. The earlier this is done the better for everyone.