minor

Hockey

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a two-minute penalty awarded for any of a wide variety of infractions of the playing rules relating to checking, sticking, etc.

Quotations

1958

Jim Hudson of the Mustangs and Fluky Kjemhus both got minors for kneeing and tripping.

1963

Keon--perhaps accidentally--bonked Young on the head with his stick and was given a minor.