Ringette score sheet

By Neil Stang

Scorekeeper duties

The scorekeeper is responsible to record on the official game sheet:

• Goals scored, goal scorers, assists, and time scored
• Penalties including number, infraction, time of penalty, time started, ended, and returned to ice. All boxes must be filled in.
• The use of timeouts during the game
• The game summary
• The time the game started, finished, rink and division
• This is especially important for tournament and playoff games

Other duties

At the end of the game, ensure:

• All minor officials (scorekeeper, timekeeper and shot clock operator) as well as the referees sign the score sheet
• All information on the scoresheet is correct

Recording goals

• Goal scorer number
• Assist number if applicable
• Second assist number if applicable
• Time of goal

Tip: When a goal is scored, look at the clock and write down the time immediately (before the ref arrives).

Inform the referee when a player has scored their goal limit for that game, if applicable: 3 goals in FUN3 and 4 goals in U12B

Recording penalties

• Penalized player number
• Served-by player number (may be different in case of injury, goalie penalty, etc.)
• Duration of penalty - 2 or 4 minutes (length of penalty is available on the scoresheet if the ref doesn’t tell you)
• Reason - code at bottom of score sheet (e.g. tripping is code 13)�Tip: Penalties are listed in alphabetical order.
• Time off - time on score clock at time of penalty �Tip: When a penalty is called, look at the clock and write down the time immediately (before the ref arrives).
• Time start - time when the penalty starts�Tip: Only differs from time off when a team’s 3rd penalty is called before the first 2 penalties expire.
• Time finish - time when the penalty is over due to expired penalty or the other team scored a goal (with an advantage)
• Time on - time when player returns to ice�Tip: Only differs from time finish when the player could not return to the ice when the penalty was over.

Penalties cont…

There are different categories of penalties:

• Minor - 2 minutes
• Major - 4 minutes
• Fully-served - either 2 or 4 minutes; for example, a misconduct is 2 minutes fully served and a match would be 4 minutes.

For minor penalties, the player may return to the ice if a goal is scored against their team. For major and fully-served penalties, the player cannot return to the ice when a goal is scored.

If there is a penalty for each team and a goal is scored, no player is released. It doesn’t matter when their penalties started. If they’re even (no advantage), no player gets out for a goal.

Penalties continued

Multiple penalties on one team:

• Record first penalty as reported from the referee
• Record second penalty as reported from referee
• Both penalties run concurrently
• They run at their normal time. The first penalized player maybe released at the end of their penalty. Then the second.
• Record third penalty as reported from referee
• Time off is when the penalty was called
• Don’t enter Time start until the first penalty expires. Time finished is recorded as normal.
• Time on will be when they are released

Third penalty

• If a third penalty is called (same team) before the first is completed, the third penalty does not start until the end of the first penalty.
• Only in the case of third penalty:
• The first penalized player does not get released when their penalty has expired until a stoppage of play (e.g. goal scored,a violation, a new penalty) or the second penalty has expired.
• The second player is not released until a stoppage of play or the third penalty has expired.
• The third player is only released when their penalty has expired and the play has stopped (they can’t get out during play). Once there are only 2 penalties remaining players are released as normal.
• Basically, you can not let a player out of the box during play when it will cause their team to have too many players on the ice.
• The referees will help you.

General housekeeping

At the end of each period, the scorekeeper is required to draw a line under the scoring and penalties between the first and second period.

It is important to draw a line directly under the goals and another line under the penalties for each period. Do not draw a straight line across both goals and penalty columns. Draw a line under the total in each column.

At the end of each period, you must fill in the game summary.

In case of a time out, check the box in the timeout used section. Record the period and time.

Most importantly

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If you have any questions.

Ask the officials.