Hi all. We played our regional championship on December here in Catalunya (Spain). I was reffing a match when a black player push a white player with both hands to win advantage to receive a puck (they're 2m far from it). The white player reaction was holding him. I saw both actions and I made the call for the first when I see the second.

My question is: what I had to decide? Same penalty for both? Or an action is more punished than a reaction?

At that moment I decided to eject the black player (action) for 2 minutes and the white player (reaction) for 1 minute. Matches were 7 minutes long, so I thought to reduce the usual ejection time so they could play... And I thought the black player decide to make the fault, but the white player just was influenced by the other.

What do you think?

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