Carl Ford answers Robert Jacobs' question:

> 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.

In fact, the European and North American methods are different here.
While it is done like Carl says on this side of the pond, I'm pretty
sure the Europeans calculate the number of goals per two minutes of
man-up time (with 5x3 time counting double).  (I think the
international rules are the same way.)  So power play percentages are
higher over there, and in principle could be over 100%.  It's harder
to keep track of (usually!) but probably more equitable.

So, not a stupid question at all, Robert.

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