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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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in hockey or box lacrosse, a special bench outside the playing area, where penalized players are required to sit out the time of their banishment from the game.

See: sin bin

Quotations

1931

. . . two Vancouver players [were] in the penalty box. . . .

1963

Alex Faulkner was in the penalty box serving a major penalty for high-sticking Montreal's Ralph Backstrom and drawing blood.

1966

Finegan . . . entered the penalty box and threw a glove on the playing surface.