I don't have the chapter and verse from the NCAA Rules,
but PP % is defined as:

(number of goals)/(number of opportunities)

That's pretty cut-and-dried for a 2-minute minor penalty by
itself: a team goes either 0-for-1 or 1-for-1.

On a PP resulting from a 5-minute major penalty, a team
cannot be perfect.  If it scores two goals, it is 2-for-3
on the power play.  Regardless of how much time was left after
the 2nd PP goal, it had another opportunity to score.

If there are several concurrent penalties, keeping track of
this can get really messy.

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On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Jacobs, Robert E. wrote:

> Hi folks;
>
> I had a (hopefully not too stupid) question regarding PP/PK stats;
> are they measured as "opportunities" only (say, if a team goes '1 for
> 4' on the PP, regardless of the actual minutes on the PP), or is it a
> measure of goals scored/allowed vs. the actual number of minutes
> on the PP/kill? In other words, is a power play or kill of, say, a
> minute or so (due to overlapping penalties) regarded as a full power
> play/kill, or are the minutes just accumulated and the statistic is a
> function of this total?
>
> Damn, I hope that all made sense. I know what I'm *trying* to say :-)
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Robert
>