Some of these penalties are hardly or not at all used nowadays, or are only used for additional justification of major penalties in the game report.
Description / Name | IIHF Code |
Abuse of Officials | ABUSE |
Adjustment of Equipment | ADJ-E |
Altercation | ALTRC |
Attempt to injure | ATT-I |
Attempt to kick | ATT-K |
Bench minor | BENCH |
Biting | BITING |
Boarding | BOARD |
Broken Stick | BR-ST |
Butt-ending | BUT-E |
Captain and alternate captain complaint | ATTUDE |
Charging | CHARG |
Checking from behind | CHE-B |
Checking to the head and neck | CHE_H |
Clipping | CLIP |
Criticism | CRITIC |
Cross-checking | CROSS |
Dangerous Equipment | DAN-E |
Delaying the game | DELAY |
Diving | DIVE |
Elbowing | ELBOW |
Excessive Rough Play | EXC-RP |
Excessive Roughness | EX-RP |
Falling on the puck | FAL-P |
Fighting | FIGHT |
Fisticuffs | FISTI |
Game misconduct penalty | GA-MI |
Goal being deliberately dislodged | DIS-N |
Goalkeeper penalties | GK-PEN |
Gross misconduct | GR-MI |
Handling the puck with the Hands | HAND-P |
Handpassing the puck | HANDP |
Head butting | H-BUT |
High sticking | HI-ST |
Holding | HOLD |
Holding the mask | HO-MA |
Holding the stick | HO-ST |
Hooking | HOOK |
Illegal Equipment | IL-EG |
Illegal Hit | ILL-H |
Illegal or dangerous equipment | EQ-INF |
Illegal Stick | IL-ST |
Incorrect change of players | CH-PL |
Incorrect Face off | F-OFF |
Interference | INTRF |
Interference with spectators | INT-S |
Kicking | KICK |
Kneeing | KNEE |
Late hit | LA-HI |
Leaving penalty bench | L-PEB |
Leaving players bench | L-PLB |
Leaving the penalty bench | L-BCH |
Match penalty | MATCH |
Measurement of equipment | AD-EQ |
Misconduct penalty | MISC |
Molesting Officials | MOL |
Obscene Language | OBS-L |
Penalty shot | PEN-S |
Prevention of infections by blood | BLOOD |
Puck freezing | P-FRE |
Puck holding | P-HOL |
Puck out of rink the unplayable | P-OUT |
Reason not specified / other | OTHER |
Refusing to Start Play | REFUS |
Refusing to start play/Team not on ice | REFUSE |
Roughing | ROUGH |
Second MAJOR penalty in the game | 2ND5 |
Slashing | SLASH |
Slew footing | SLEW-F |
Spearing | SPEAR |
Starting line up | STA-L |
Taunting | TAUNTING |
Team officials leaving the players bench | T-BCH |
Team penalty | TEAM |
Throwing a stick | THR-S |
Throwing the puck | THR-P |
Throwing the stick or any other object | THR-ST |
Too many players on the ice | TOO-M |
Tripping | TRIP |
Unsportsmanlike conduct | UN-SP |
Unsportsmanlike conduct by official | UNSP-O |
Women Body Checking | BD-CK |