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minor penalty
noun
a penalty consisting of the removal of a player from play for two minutes, no substitute for the player being permitted.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of minor penalty1
Example Sentences
The play was initially called a five-minute major, but changed to a minor penalty after replay review.
Fowler was fortunate to get away with only a minor penalty on the play as Wright was far enough from the boards that he braced himself for impact and wasn’t hurt.
Burakovsky got a shot off just as he was being tripped by Scheifele for a two-minute minor penalty.
Before Bjorkstrand’s goal, St. Louis’ Marco Scandella took a minor penalty for an illegal check to the head of Jared McCann.
Play could have been whistled dead in honor of McDavid’s third minor penalty of the game, but it wasn’t called.
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