1. All Violations are Based on Players' Actions
A minor penalty will face any player or goalie who delays the game by deliberately shooting or batting the ball outside the playing area. When the goalie shoots the ball directly out of the playing surface, except where there is no glass, there will be a penalty for delaying the game. A ball shot during play that hits any infrastructure above the playing surface that is "inside" the glass around the arena, will result in a possession, not a penalty.
2. Penalties After Play Stoppage
This includes a "shot clock" stoppage violation. A minor penalty is imposed on any player or goalkeeper who throws or deliberately bats the ball outside the playing area or throws or rolls the ball away from the referee.
Teams shall not deliberately throw the ball down to their defensive zone with time remaining in the 30-second clock strictly for "stalling" purposes to allow their defensive unit on the floor.
3. Stalling is Delay of Game
Any deliberate action on the part of a team in possession of the ball to maintain possession of the ball outside the attack goal area by holding or passing the ball without reasonable effort to attack its opponents' goal is a technical foul known as "stalling." When a referee feels that a team in possession of the ball outside the attack goal area is not making a reasonable attempt to attack its opponents' goal, then he can ask that team, "Get it in." The team must then carry or pass the ball into the attack goal area within a reasonable time. Once the ball is in the attack goal area, then the team in possession will keep it in the attack goal area.
4. Keep It In
When a referee feels that a team in possession of the ball inside the attack goal area is not making a reasonable attempt to attack its opponents' goal, then he can ask the team to "Keep it in." The team must then keep it in the attack goal area. If the ball subsequently leaves the stalling area before the defending team has had possession of the ball, except as a result of a foul by the defending team or a deflection by the defending team or a shot, then the team that has been asked to "Keep it in" will lose possession to their opponents.
5. Not Stalling
A team playing with fewer players than its opponents due to penalties cannot be guilty of stalling. A team that has possession of the ball in their attack goal area cannot be guilty of stalling either.
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