10 minute misconducts can be assessed without a minor, it's a rare call but it's possible. The only times I remember are for shooting after the whistle. The guy who got the 10 min misconduct at the end was not the dude who threw the punch though.
Still really, really bizarre that on that play the only penalty given for the on-ice scuffle after the goal was a random 10 minute misconduct. It probably doesn't end up changing the outcome of the game, but you can't miss that punch at the end there.
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Annoyingly, rules quirks hit us in both hockey and basketball, on consecutive days, for similar reasons.
For hockey - the review could only cover a major, not a minor, and the ref decided, somehow, that the blatant punch, after the play, and despite the rule specifically emphasizing it, wasn't a major. Penalty to us (that rule really need to be abolished, btw), and it ended the game, effectively.
For basketball, the clear flagrant on St John's was easy, but I called it the second they went to review - they were going to double it up, because you can't create a common foul from replay. Clingan probably deserved a personal there, but not a flagrant, and St John's call was easy.
I am really starting to lose enjoyment with sports due to officiating. Bogus roughing the passer calls in football, goalie interference in hockey, basketball pretty much everything. It's getting to be too much.
