What are the penalties for body-checking at U13?

Under Rule 7.3 of the Hockey Canada Playing Rules 2026-2028:

• Minor penalty: to any player who, in the referee's opinion, intentionally body-checks, bumps, shoves or pushes an opposing player (7.3 a).
• Major and Game Misconduct: at the referee's discretion based on the degree of violence of the impact (7.3 b). If the opponent is injured on a body-check that would otherwise be a Minor, a Major and Game Misconduct must be assessed.
• Match penalty: to any player who deliberately attempts to injure or deliberately injures an opponent by body-checking (7.3 c).
• No Misconduct penalty may be assessed for body-checking (7.3 d), and a Game Misconduct must be assessed whenever a Major is assessed for it (7.3 e).

Rule 7.6 adds that any foul that results in contact to the head must be penalized as Head Contact.