The object of the game quite simply is to strike the ball with the hockey stick and knock it into the opponent's hockey net (6 feet wide x 4 feet high, 1.83 m x 1.22 m) Only a CBHA-approved ball is used. For added safety, gloves and helmets are mandatory in the PG Ball Hockey League. The PG Ball Hockey League plays at the PG Dome Arena, on a hardwood floor surface. Games in this arena are played 5 on 5, plus one goaltender each. Extra players are usually kept on each bench, outside the playing surface, and interchanged with the five on the floor either during play or at a stoppage of play. Hockey floor markings are used, including goal lines, goal creases, blue lines, center line, and face-off dots.

• Face-offs (players are lined up facing each other in a designated area on the floor), are used at the start of each period of play, after goals, and penalties.

• Penalties are called when a player commits a foul. The offending player is then removed from playing for a period of time, depending on the severity of the infraction and the team continues play one player short until the penalty has elapsed.

• When an offside occurs. play is stopped. Before entering an opponent team's zone; (the area from behind their net to their blue line) the ball must cross the blue line first before the player or any of his teammates.

 

Overrules Specific to the PG Ball Hockey League:

• Play 'restarts with possession' by the non-offending team when the ball leaves the playing surface, or one team goes offside. 

• Icing is not called in PG Ball Hockey League games played at the PG Dome Arena, as a consideration to the size of the playing surface.

• "Floating Blue Line": expansion of the offensive zones occurs once a team crosses the opponent's blue line with the ball. The attacking team will then have TWO THIRDS of the playing surface within which to control the ball, from behind the opponent's goal to the FAR BLUE LINE (instead of the close blue line that was just crossed). If the defending team sends the ball past the FAR BLUE LINE, the zone is reset and their opponent must regain it as explained above