Goalie Equipment: all goalies must wear a full face mask or helmet with a cage. It is also recommended that they wear a chest protector, a protective glove or blocker on their stick hand, a catching glove on their non-stick hand, and leg guards/pads.

Playing time: shall consist of three periods of 13 minutes each. The clock will be stopped only after a goal is scored and for injuries, during penalty shots and for timeouts. At any other time, the clock will run continuously until the final two minutes of the game, at which time it will stop on every whistle, unless a team is winning by four to six goals.

Face-offs: occur when

1. A period is to start
2. A goal is scored
3. The puck is frozen between two players
4. The puck leaves the playing area
5. A net is dislodged
6. The puck is frozen by the goalie
7. An injury occurs

Advancing the puck: The puck may be advanced by the blade of the stick or by kicking the puck. However, no goal may be scored by kicking the puck directly into the opponent's net. Players may not bat or throw the puck at any time.

Playing the body: Players must play the puck at all times. Any player checking another player will be penalized.

Goal Keeper

• Stopping the puck: The goalie may use any means possible to stop the puck with their body, glove, or stick. This includes leaving their feet to play a puck.
• Possession of the puck: The goalie may not gain possession of the puck outside of the crease unless part of his/her body is touching a portion of the crease. Upon gaining control of the puck, the goalie has three seconds to play the puck to the side or behind the net. If the goalie does not distribute the puck, a face-off will be called. The goalie may not throw the puck forward, or a running foul will occur. The goalie may not gain possession of the puck within the crease, drop the puck outside the crease to put it in play, and intentionally bring it back into the crease without another player first touching the puck.
• Leaving the crease: The goalie may leave the crease at any time, however, once out of the goal area, they must follow all rules that apply to floor players.
• Dislodged net: In the case that the net becomes dislodged, but is not involved in the ensuing play, the official shall allow play to continue and will replace the net. If it is dislodged and is in the play, the official shall blow the play dead and a face-off will restart play at the nearest face-off spot. An intentionally dislodged net will result in a penalty, or a penalty shot. An official may award a goal if the shot was headed into the net when the net was dislodged.
• Crease Rule: At no time is a player of the offensive team permitted to enter the goalie's crease with any portion of the body. If a goal is scored while the player is illegally in the crease, it shall be disallowed. A face-off occurring at the nearest face-off area will resume play. However, if the official determines that the goalie was interfered with, an interference penalty will be assessed. An offensive player's stick is not allowed to enter the crease at any time. If an offensive player places the stick in the crease area, they will be penalized for interference. This includes breaking the plane of the crease with the follow through of a shot. If this occurs, the goal will not be permitted. If the official determines that the goalie was interfered with, an interference penalty will be assessed. Goalies are permitted to leave the crease area to establish a better angle of defense or to play the puck. However, the goalie may not leave the crease for purposes of freezing the puck outside the crease area. The player will promptly be penalized for delay of game.

Holding the Stick: The carrying of a stick above the normal standing height of the waist is prohibited and a minor penalty will be assessed. This includes the process of a shot, including the follow through, and the goal will be disallowed.

Hand Passes: If a player closes his hand on the puck, play will be stopped will be awarded to the opposing team at the nearest free shot location. Players may bat the puck straight down with their hand, but such action may not result in the puck being directed towards a teammate.

Running Fouls: results in a possession change. Any player committing five running fouls in a single game will be disqualified for the remainder of that game.

• High Sticking (no contact)
• Hand Pass
• Kicking the Puck
• Player or Stick in Crease
• Dangerous Play/Sliding
• Goalie Possession of Puck

Minor Penalties: results in a two-minute penalty. Penalty is over when two minutes expires or opponent scores (unless there are two members of the same team in penalty box) then the one with the least amount of penalty time remaining is released, while the other serves their remaining time.

• Interference
• Boarding
• Playing w/ a broken stick
• Tripping
• Holding/Pushing
• Charging/Checking from Behind
• Illegal Use of Hands
• Elbowing
• Body Checking/Roughing
• Delay of Game
• Hooking
• High Sticking (w/ contact)
• Kicking/Kneeing

Major Penalties: results in a five-minute penalty. Players must serve duration of penalty regardless of opponent's scoring.

• Personal Misconduct
• Spearing
• Butt-ending
• Cross Checking
• Slashing
• Fighting (Automatic Ejection)

Other rules that may be added to floor hockey

• Offsides: A team is offside when any member of the attacking team precedes the puck carrier over the defending team's blueline. The position of the player's skates and not that of his stick is the determining factor. If both skates are over the blueline before the puck, the player is offside. If he has only one skate over the blueline and one on it, he is onside. When the puck clears out of the zone, ALL offensive players must exit the zone before the offensive team may carry the puck into the zone again.
• Icing: Icing the puck is not permitted when the teams are at equal numerical strength. Thus it is an infraction when a player on his team's side of the red center line shoots the puck all the way down the ice, it crosses the red goal line itself and is first touched by a defending player. When this occurs, play is stopped and the puck is returned to the other end of the ice for a face-off in the offending team's zone. Icing the puck is not called:
  • If the goalie plays the puck by leaving his net.
  • If the puck cuts across part of the goal crease.
  • When a defending opponent, in the judgement of the linesmen, could have played the puck before it crossed the red goal line.
  • When an attacking player who was onside (in the same zone) when the puck was shot down the ice, manages to touch it first.
  • When a team is playing short-handed because of a penalty or penalties. A. If the goalie plays the puck by leaving his net.
  • If the puck cuts across part of the goal crease.
  • When a defending opponent, in the judgement of the linesmen, could have played the puck before it crossed the red goal line.
  • When an attacking player who was onside (in the same zone) when the puck was shot down the ice, manages to touch it first.
  • When a team is playing short-handed because of a penalty or penalties.
• Two-line pass: When a player passes the puck from his defending zone to a teammate beyond the center red line (thus crossing the blue line and the red line) it is an offside pass. The position of the puck (not the player's skates in this case) is the determining factor in deciding from which zone the pass was made.