PEOPLE who come and watch our games might notice people being sent to the penalty box from time to time.

There are so many penalties that it’s hard to keep track but there are three main categories - minor penalties, which usually get you two minutes in the box, misconduct penalties, which are 10 minutes, and then major penalties.

Minor penalties are things like stick penalties, such as tripping, hooking, which is when you use a stick to impede someone, and slashing, which is more of a hitting motion with your stick.

All of those would get you two minutes in the penalty box, and then there are others like interference, which would be interfering with a player’s progress who isn’t the puck carrier, and checking penalties like boarding, when you check a player violently into the board, hitting from behind and charging, when you take too many strides into a hit.

That is most of the minor penalties and then you get penalties for fighting and roughing.

The minimum number of players you can have on the ice is three, so we’ll never have a situation where the netminder is out there to fend for himself.

If a team has three minor penalties at once, the third penalty would not start until one of the other two was finished. You can only have two active penalties, as soon as one is done the next one goes on the clock.

It’s not a situation you find yourself in often. Five-on-three does happen but it’s rare.

When you are a player down it does change how you approach the game and the main difference is that you are allowed to ice the puck, so hit the puck the full length of the ice.

You’re looking to keep the puck as far away from your goal as possible.

The attacking team will look to set up to pass around you but you want to keep them around the edge where they have poor shooting opportunities.

Should you be able to win the puck you will look to fire it down the other end to kill as much time as possible.