This document discusses game management and setting penalty standards in youth hockey games. It emphasizes the importance of calling aggressive penalties like checking from behind or head contact to prevent retaliation and keep games safe and competitive. Attendees were split into groups to discuss whether penalties should have been called in different hypothetical game scenarios, considering factors like the game situation, flow of play, and history between teams. The goal is for officials to establish and enforce standards to maintain control without over-officiating or letting games get out of hand. Video clips were provided as examples to analyze.

1. Game
Management/Penalty
Standard
DCHOA December 2015 Education Meeting

2. Game Management
• What do we mean?
• Setting good penalty standards at the
start of the game.
• Why is it important?
• Helps to eliminate retaliation
penalties later in the game.

3. Penalty Standard
• Remember the USA Hockey Standard
• Aggressive penalties should always be called:
• Checking from behind, head contact,
boarding, charging, etc.
• Did the action affect play?
• In close or clean games-- minor actions that
do not impact the play could be ignored.

4. Brief Introductory Example
If the initial hit was called, the following play might not happen.

5. Additional Example

6. Activity
• Combine into groups of 3-4
• Each group will have a different scenario
to discuss after watching the clips.
• First watch the clip & then discuss
based on the situation for your group:
• Should a penalty have been called?
• What call would you make and why?

7. Scenario 1
● League game among 2 youth teams.
● It is the first game of the season for both
teams.
● It is 2 minutes into the 1st period .
● No penalties have been called yet.

8. Scenario 2
● It is the 1st period between 2 teams
that are in game 3 of a weekend series.
● No penalties have been called yet.
● A player from each team has received a
game misconduct in previous games in
the series.

9. Scenario 3
• There are 5 minutes left in the 3rd period.
• The game is tied 1-1.
• Play has been even and clean with the
teams receiving 4 penalties each.

10. Scenario 4
● There are 8 minutes left in the 3rd period.
● It is a 6-1 game.
● Play has been relatively clean until one
team started pulling away.

11. Scenario 5
● It is the middle of the 2nd period.
● The game is 2-1.
● First period had a total of 5 penalties
(3 for one team & 2 on the other).
● Lots of back & forth action-- speed &
flow has increased.

12. Scenario 6
● A game tied at 4-4 has gone into
overtime.
● A total of 12 penalties (6 on each team)
have been called.

21. Various Clips
1.http://www.tubechop.com/watch/7455490
2. http://www.tubechop.com/watch/7455465
3. http://www.tubechop.com/watch/7455271
4. http://www.tubechop.com/watch/7454963
5. http://www.tubechop.com/watch/7455509
6. http://www.tubechop.com/watch/7488171
7. http://www.tubechop.com/watch/7489335