1. A great article on the NORCAL website giving detailed Scoresheet Instructions
2. Anything else worth adding to the web page? (send me e-mail) 3. Description of Game Duties Shot Count: You pick the goal that you will be covering and place yourself where you get a nice view of the goal. Then you count shots that either the goalie prevents from going into the net or go into the net. Usually after each period the referee will ask you how many shots on that net. If he/she doesn't, make sure the information gets to the scorekeeper. If goalies are changed during the middle of the period, keep track of the shot count against each goalie.
+/- : “Plus/Minus” is a statistic that the coaches have asked to be kept, although it is not an official part of the score sheet. This is very simple in concept, but requires you to pay constant attention to the game and the players that are on the ice. Basically, if a player is on the ice when a goal is scored for the Cougars, he/she receives a ‘+1’ and if they are on the ice when the opponent scores, it's a ‘-1’. You will need to bring some extra paper with you, and it's best to position yourself where you can see the numbers of the players as they leave the ice. Use the team +/- worksheet and complete it after each period. After the game, give the worksheet to the Cougar scorekeeper. Click here for latest team +/- worksheet.
Penalty Box: There needs to be one parent per Penalty Box. You open the door to let the players in and to let them out. You are considered an official so you need to maintain order, but you also need to make sure that you're behaving properly as well. While it's fine to cheer for your team, make sure that you're not yelling at the referee, or making disparaging comments about the other team. Really, it's just all common sense. (And it actually is the best seat in the house!) There are specific rules regarding when the door is opened at the end of the penalty. For major penalties or coincidental minors, the penalty time will not be put on the scoreboard. After the penalty time expires, you will have to wait for a stoppage in play before the player can come out of the box. The referee/scorekeeper will notify you of that fact when it arises. Please make sure the player understands the situation. In the heat of the game, they usually forget this rule and then get nervous when they don't see the time for their penalty appear on the scoreboard.
Scorekeeping: There are two people in the booth, one to do the score sheet and the other who will run the clock. It's advised that you bring a watch for any timeouts that might be taken as we have a rather primitive score clock. It's also a good idea to bring a pad of paper for any penalties so that you can write down the start time (actually there should be a score sheet for this). When there is a penalty, pay attention to the clock so that you can tell the penalty box parents when the penalty is over.
Remember that when any of us are serving in some sort of capacity as an off-ice official, whether it be in the penalty box or score booth, that we need to behave as neutrally as possible. We need to remember that we are officials and therefore, we can't be banging on the glass, or screaming at the play, etc. The players on the other teams can be very intimidated coming into the penalty box and standing next to the score booth. So, as hard as it is, try to keep your emotions in check, even if it means going outside after the game to scream.
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