a. If a third player of any team shall be penalized while two players of the
same team are serving penalties, the penalty time of the third player shall
not commence until the penalty time of one of the two players already
penalized has elapsed. Nevertheless, the third player penalized must at
once proceed to the penalty bench but may be replaced by a substitute
until such time as the penalty time of the penalized player shall commence.
b. When any team shall have three players serving penalties at the same time
and because of the delayed penalty rule, a substitute for the third offender
is on the ice, none of the three penalized players on the penalty bench
may return to the ice until play has stopped. When play has been
stopped, the player whose full penalty has expired may return to the play.
Provided however that the Penalty Timekeeper shall permit the return to
the ice in the order of expiry of their penalties, of a player or players
when, by reason of the expiration of their penalties, the penalized team is
entitled to have more than four players on the ice.
c. In the case of delayed penalties, the Referee shall instruct the Penalty
Timekeeper that penalized players whose penalties have expired shall
only be allowed to return to the ice when there is a stoppage of play.
When the penalties of two players of the same team will expire at the
same time, the Captain of that team will designate to the Referee which of
such players will return to the ice first and the Referee will instruct the
Penalty Timekeeper accordingly. When a major and a minor penalty are
imposed at the same time on players of the same team, the Penalty
Timekeeper shall record the minor as being the first of such penalties.
(NOTE)
This applies to the case where the two penalties are imposed on
DIFFERENT players of the same team. See also Note to Rule 27.
