Penalty Box Rights and Restrictions
July 6, 2010
Q:
Is it legal to enter the penalty box to hand a penalized skater water?
A:
It is only a penalty to enter the designated penalty box area to communicate with a penalized skater. Communicating is the passing of information. You may communicate with a skater in the penalty box from outside the designated penalty box area.
Applicable Rules
6.13.14 A penalized skater's teammates, manager, and/or coach who enters the designated penalty box area to communicate with a penalized skater. If the person entering is not a skater in the bout the penalty will go to the Captain.
7.3.4 Penalized skaters may not leave the designated penalty box area during either a team or official timeout (see Section 6.13.13).
7.3.4.1 A penalized skater's teammates, managers, and coaches may not at any time physically enter the designated penalty box area to communicate with the penalized skater (see Section 6.13.14).
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