CISSA
FLOOR HOCKEY RULES 2013-2014
NOTE: For the 2012-2013 year we will continue to use the ball.
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Season Format: Co-ed teams in 2 Divisions: Juniors & Seniors
Match Length: One 20-25 minute game per round. Longer/shorter games
can be negotiated if desired, depending on the venue and arrival time of teams.
Court Dimensions: As large as possible given prevailing restrictions.
Try to block off outside areas to keep the ball in play.
Goals need to be set in from back line (approx. 3-5m) and to be approx.
180cm wide by 120cm high. If not, cones may be used and goal height
negotiated.
Equipment:
Sticks should be similar to the Shield, DOM or Cosom Gopher catalogue floor
hockey sticks with protective ends. Shafts of the sticks may be plastic,
Aluminum (metal), fiberglass or wood.
In an event that a school does not have aluminum (metal) shaft sticks they will
be supplied with metal shaft sticks by the schools that have extra aluminum
shaft sticks, where possible. If this is not possible then each team will trade
sticks so there is an equal number of metal shaft sticks on the playing surface
at all times.
Bandy or floor ball sticks will not be allowed because coaches have deemed
that they give teams an unfair advantage due to the composite structure of the
shaft.
Each team should try to use sticks with the same blade colour.
Players are not permitted to extremely bend the end of the blades.
Balls only. The DOM floor hockey ball or Rainbow PVC hockey ball will be
the official ball of the CISSA Floor Hockey Tournament and League play.
Players and goalies may wear appropriate protection such as gloves or masks.
Players must wear safety eye goggles unless they wear eye glasses with plastic
lenses.
Goalie may also use slightly wider “goalie stick” and other goalie equipment.
Teams should not have to wait for the goalie to put on his equipment. Another
player should be the goalie without equipment until the goalie suits up. This
avoids timely delays.
Players: Teams consist of six players in total: a goalie plus five players on the
court; depending on the size of the court you could remove or add one player.
Every effort should be made to ‘have girls in each team’ and split them evenly
amongst teams.
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Substitutions: You can have/use as many subs as you like. A coach/referee
can stop play if the ball is in a corner and the action is slow, for example, to
get subs into the game. Rolling subs is allowed during play. Coaches need to
negotiate equity of sexes on the court.
Referees: Each school is allowed and has the right to have their coach work as
a referee on the court making calls if they wish. Ideally there should be two
referees for each game; one from each team playing.
Starts/Restarts:
Face-off: The N-H-L style face-off will be used. The two players involved in
the face-off with perform this series of movements (touch sticks together in
the air, followed by each player touching the blade of their stick on the
ground) 3 times to begin each and every face-off.
Players must be behind their face-off player to be on-side during a face-off.
Offside: does not apply but goals may only be scored from forward half of the
court. If the gym does not have a clear marking for the center line, shooting
from around the approximate centerline is fine to score.
Penalties:
Players, including goalies, must have control of their stick at all times. A
penalty will be called if a player deliberately throws his/her stick to take the
ball away from an opposing player.
If a defender fouls a player attempting to score (tripping, slashing, hooking,
throwing their stick and body checking etc), this offending player will be
substituted to their team’s bench and a penalty shot is awarded to any player
on the team that was fouled. There is no power-play advantage as a penalty
shot has been awarded.
Penalty Shot: The player is given the ball on the half-way/centerline; all other
players must be behind him/her, and he/she runs in one-on-one versus the
goalie. Only three seconds are allowed once they start forward. If he/she
scores, misses, or the goalie stops the ball (save), play restarts in the middle
with a face-off and all players return to their half of the court.
Ball out of Play: You may play a ball off walls if appropriate. If the ball goes
out, there is a face-off. If the ball goes out of bounds in a defender’s end, the
face-off will be at a 45 degree angle five meters from the goalie’ left or right
post. If the ball goes out of bounds in the neutral zone, the face off will take
place three meters in from where it went out near the centerline.
Goal Keepers:
If the goalie smothers the ball for more than three seconds, it is a face-off five
meters away at a 45 degree angle from the goal.
The goal crease is marked with tape one meter from the front of each goal.
Only the goalie can be in that area. Attackers/defenders are allowed to put a
stick in the crease to retrieve / play a ball not yet covered up by the goalie.
There must be no body contact by the attacker with the goalie in their crease or
penalty will result.
It is recommended that Goalies should hold a stick during the game (for skill
development). may catch/handle the ball when they are inside of the crease. If
both of the goalie’s feet are in the crease, he/she may reach for the ball outside
of the crease and/ or drag the ball to the crease with the stick. The goalie could
immediately drop the ball and hit it with their stick, kick it, throw it laterally, or
opt for a face-off after gaining possession of it (making a save). The ball may
not cross the centerline if thrown. If this happens, the other team gets to take a
shot/pass from the centerline with the nearest defender two meters away. A
penalty results when a goalie illegally handles a ball outside their crease.
d. The goalie can only smother the ball when the ball is in the crease.
e. Goalies cannot keep their knees or their stick (lying flat on the floor) on the
floor all of the time. They can do so only when the opponent is shooting. They
must be seen to be getting back on their feet.
f. When a goalie leaves their crease, they are treated as another player on the
court and may not smother the ball outside of the crease.
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Playing the Ball:
a. Players may not raise a stick above hip height in backswing or follow-through,
i.e. no slapping nor high-sticking.
b. You may catch the ball and then drop it straight to the floor immediately.
c. You may kick the ball but not score goals in this manner.
d. You may hook the opponent’s stick away from the ball- then hit/kick it.
e. You may incidentally hit sticks when tackling as long as in a controlled way.
You may use your shoulder/hips to gain position in a safe, controlled manner.
14. Penalties/Send-offs: Tripping, slashing, hooking, body checking, throwing
your stick and high sticking (having the stick over waist height).
a. The first penalty/send-off is to last one minute, and it is timed by the referee
(that player is not replaceable during this punishment).
b. Players may not put a hand on an opponent nor charge into them. The first
penalty/send-off lasts one minute, the second lasts two minutes, and the third
time results in that player being expulsed. Players who repeat such dangerous
plays must be warned and should be removed from the game. When a
penalty/send-off occurs, a face-off will be held where the infringement
occurred at the opposition gets the ball where the infringement occurred (but a
minimum of five meters from the goal), giving them a power-play advantage.
c. The player stays in the penalty box until the penalty time is up or a power-play
goal is scored. His/her team stays “short-handed” for the full minute or two
minutes or until the opposing team scores. Example: If team ‘A’ has two
players sent off, and they are two players down, and a goal is scored, only one
player can return. So team ‘A’ would still be one person down if a goal was
scored by the other team when team ‘A’ had two in the penalty box.
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Draws: Games can end in a tie; there are no penalty shoot-outs.
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Match Equity: Coaches must enforce the five goal “blow-out” rule.
Suggested options in cases of blow outs:
a. top scorer(s) are taken off and less experienced players are substituted for
them.
b. top scorers are placed in defensive positions and to pass to other team
members rather than shoot the ball.
c. team leading will take off one player and play short-handed until the goal
differential is less than 5.
d. teams cannot adopt the trap mode where all of the team members take a
more defensive approach to the game and shoot the ball before the half court
line- thus negating any goals.
e. teams can swap goalie