Penalty (ice hockey) the NHL, whether or not a goal is scored. The offending player or players are sent to the penalty box where they must remain until the penalty has expired. Typically a team will not be allowed to replace the penalized player on the ice; the player will return directly to the ice once the penalty has expired. This creates a power play during which the penalized team will have one player fewer than their opponent and is said to be "short-handed". If two players on a team are in the penalty box at the same time, the situation is called
Penalty box in 15-man union or 13-man league, meaning that the penalty lasts one seventh (14.3%) as opposed to one eighth (12.5%) of the match, and b) during this time, the offender's team must play without one seventh of their team; this opens up more space than losing one thirteenth or one fifteenth of the side. The following sports use penalty boxes (by that or another name) in some form: The hybrid sport of International Rules football presents a slight anomaly since penalty boxes are native to "neither" of the sports from which International Rules was conceived, namely Gaelic football and Australian