How to Use minor penalty in a Sentence

minor penalty

noun
  • Gilbert made contact with Ritchie’s head as the pair crashed into the glass, and was awarded a minor penalty.
    Jenna Ciccotelli, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Feb. 2020
  • The blood rule High-sticking is a minor penalty that sends players to the penalty box for two minutes.
    Chris Chase, For The Win, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Smith was docked a minor penalty and a 10-minute misconduct.
    oregonlive, 6 May 2021
  • Marchand finished with two shots and a minor penalty in 9:19.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The Ducks took a fairly straightforward 2-1 matchup in a tight game with no fights and only three minor penalties.
    Curtis Zupke, latimes.com, 20 Jan. 2018
  • Holtby and his peers say a minor penalty is not much of a deterrent to keep players from crashing the net in hopes of a goal.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Two of the four power-play goals the Hawks allowed came while Patrick Kane served a four-minute double-minor penalty for high-sticking.
    Paul Skrbina, chicagotribune.com, 10 Mar. 2018
  • The final eight minutes of the second were filled with minor penalties and lots of 4-on-4 hockey, but no one was able to take advantage of the open ice.
    USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Moore said after his team served four minor penalties and one major.
    Jake Levin, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Kerfoot was assessed a minor penalty for boarding, and Johnson may have been injured on the play.
    Mike Chambers, The Denver Post, 24 Nov. 2019
  • The Kings even took two minor penalties while trailing in the final minutes, eliciting boos from the sellout crowd.
    USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Then a high-stick double minor penalty on Wild defenseman Ryan Murphy turned the tide.
    Dave Campbell, star-telegram, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The Ducks had a man-advantage at 10:31 when the debuting Jack Studnicka was sent to the box for his second minor penalty of the game on his first shift of the third period.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2022
  • On the downside, the first challenge that proves unsuccessful will result in a minor penalty.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2019
  • Pittsburgh tried to regroup in the second period and outshot the Jets 15-4, thanks partly to a string of minor penalties on Winnipeg.
    USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2017
  • With less than a minute left in the second, Calvin de Haan was issued a two-minute minor penalty for a hit that sent Mason Marchment reeling backward.
    Phil Thompson, chicagotribune.com, 20 Feb. 2022
  • Matt Dumba lays a late hit on Joe Pavelski and receives a 2-minute minor penalty for roughing.
    Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Of course the five that were upheld meant failed challenge cost that respective team & coach a subsequent minor penalty.
    Ross McKeon, SFChronicle.com, 25 Oct. 2019
  • They Canadiens had to kill off a double minor penalty to Shea Weber that spanned the end of regulation and start of overtime.
    Mike Brehm, USA TODAY, 6 July 2021
  • On the downside, each coach’s challenge that proves unsuccessful will result in a minor penalty.
    John Wawrow, The Denver Post, 20 June 2019
  • The Capitals outshot the Lightning 38-23 but didn't help goaltender Braden Holtby with six minor penalties.
    Stephen Whyno, chicagotribune.com, 15 May 2018
  • Rasmussen was assessed a minor penalty for high-sticking midway through the second period in the Red Wings’ 5-1 loss in Boston.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Dach jawed at a few Leafs players — and appeared to also have some choice words for the referee — after taking the second of two minor penalties in the third period.
    Jimmy Greenfield, chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2019
  • Kassian had been assessed a minor penalty in the second period.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2022
  • Ben McCartney was called for high-sticking and assessed a double minor penalty.
    José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 20 Sep. 2021
  • In addition to the expulsions, the largest of their kind in Britain since 1985, Britain is imposing a host of other relatively minor penalties.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2018
  • An unsuccessful challenge results in a two-minute minor penalty and a power play for the opposing team.
    Andrew Knoll, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Lucic was assessed two minor penalties for roughing; Sherwood left the game but later returned.
    BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2019
  • The scuffle led to a 10-minute game misconduct and two minor penalties for Domi and an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for Hague.
    Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023
  • Florida forward Matthew Tkachuk, who played sparingly in the third period because of an undisclosed injury, was on the ice at the end and got a misconduct and two minor penalties at the 20-minute mark.
    Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2023

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