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major (penalty)
Hockey
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a penalty called against a player for certain infractions of the rules, including fighting and drawing blood with an illegal stick check, and punished by banishment from the ice for five minutes.
Quotations
1962
Kingston took 21 penalties and Gananoque sat out 14 sentences, including a misconduct to James McGlade for incurring his second major of the game.
1963
Alex Faulkner was in the penalty box serving a major penalty for high-sticking Montreal's Ralph Backstrom and drawing blood.