both sticks illegal after a period ends with possession May 18, 2021 World Games 2014 0 Forum Questions As a period comes to a close, Team A possesses the ball as the whistle sounds. Between periods, officials do a random stick check on players from both teams. Both sticks are found to have deep pockets. How is this adjudicated? Question File Add new DuBan's Answer: Visual Text Kratz's Answer: Visual Text McCarrick's Answer: Visual Text Riti's Answer: Visual Text Tyma's Answer: Visual Text The first thing is that the possession of the ball at the end of the period does not matter, unless a team is already man-up. And if a team is man-up, officials are strongly discouraged from conducting random stick checks because a bad stick could result in a team being two men down. Because the period ended, a face-off is pending. Since players from both teams have illegal sticks, both players will serve two-minute non-releasable penalties. Both of these fouls occurred on a dead ball. Because officials cannot know which stick became illegal first, the fouls are dead-ball fouls where the officials do not know the sequence. According to Rule 7.5, such dead-ball fouls are enforced the same as simultaneous fouls. Because the penalty time served by both teams is the same, the state of possession (face-off pending) does not change. Therefore, a face-off is conducted, with both teams a man down. Answer File Question Answered Yes No
