NCAA Rule of the Week
Every published card, newest topic first within each code. Cards repeat through the season, so each shows when it was last the card of the week.
NCAA NCAA cards 27
- Last five minutes and overtime: a major-versus-minor differential goes up at once NCAA 19.3, NCAA Appendix G Card of the week Oct 5, 2026
- Goalkeeper's major or misconduct is now served by a teammate NCAA 28.1, NCAA 28.2 Card of the week Oct 12, 2026
- Second major in a game means an automatic game misconduct NCAA 20.1, NCAA 20.4, NCAA 22.1, NCAA 22.2 Card of the week Oct 19, 2026
- Hand passes in your own defending zone no longer stop play NCAA 84.1, NCAA 84.2 Card of the week Oct 26, 2026
- High-sticking the puck: face-off spot, line changes and goals NCAA 84.4, NCAA 93.4(b) Coming up
- The trapezoid comes to NCAA men's hockey NCAA 28.4, NCAA 1.6 Coming up
- Fighting now means repeated punches NCAA 48.1, NCAA 48.2, NCAA 48.4, NCAA 53.1 Coming up
- Head-butting is now a three-step scale NCAA 49.1, NCAA 49.2, NCAA 49.3, NCAA 49.4 Coming up
- Throwing a stick out of the playing area: game misconduct NCAA 55.5, NCAA 55.1, NCAA 55.2 Coming up
- Spitting and offensive language: major plus disqualification NCAA 79.5, NCAA 79.3, NCAA 23.1 Coming up
- Face-offs: full blade down, stick order, and the second violation NCAA 81.1, NCAA 81.3, NCAA Points of Emphasis (Face-off Mechanics) Coming up
- No-change situations: icing, the frozen dump-in and the net knocked off NCAA 85.4, NCAA 67.6, NCAA 92.1 Coming up
- Off-side: skates decide, and the carrier must control the puck with the stick NCAA 86.1, NCAA 86.2 Coming up
- Time-outs in 2026-28: one per game, and no extra one in men's overtime NCAA 92.1, NCAA 92.2, NCAA 92.3 Coming up
- Goalkeeper interference, and the new challenge of a no-goal call NCAA 73.1, NCAA 73.2, NCAA 73.3, NCAA 93.4(b)5 Coming up
- Video review before an ejection: who can start it NCAA 93.4(c), NCAA 93.7 Coming up
- Pulled goalkeeper leaves the stick behind: awarded goal NCAA 28.6, NCAA 26.1 Coming up
- Helmets: displaced, removed, and the goalkeeper's mask on a breakaway NCAA 9.4 Coming up
- Cut-resistant equipment: recommended now, required for Division I next season NCAA 9.7 Coming up
- Coach's challenge: what it costs and how to ask NCAA 93.1, NCAA 93.4(b), NCAA 93.6, NCAA 93.7 Coming up
- Coincidental penalties: 4-on-4, or substitute and keep going? NCAA 19.1, NCAA 19.2, NCAA 19.4 Coming up
- When a power-play goal lets a player out NCAA 16.2, NCAA 18.2, NCAA 20.2 Coming up
- A goal during a delayed penalty NCAA 15.1, NCAA 15.2, NCAA 15.3 Coming up
- Minor plus misconduct: who comes out when NCAA 21.1, NCAA 21.2, NCAA 21.3 Coming up
- Delayed penalties: the third player in the box NCAA 27.1, NCAA 27.2, NCAA 27.3 Coming up
- Hybrid icing: decided by the end-zone dots NCAA 85.1, NCAA 85.2, NCAA 85.5, NCAA 85.6 Coming up
- Delayed off-side, tag-ups and disallowed goals NCAA 86.3, NCAA 86.4, NCAA 86.5, NCAA 86.6 Coming up