At 10:44 PM 1/4/99 -0700, Charlie Shub wrote:
>a player gets a minor penalty at the final whistle.
>
>clearly that counts as one more penalty and two more minutes of penalty time
>
>the question is whether it also increments the power play opportunities of
>the other team since the other team got no time with a man advantage.
>
 
From the "Official 1999 Ice Hockey Statistics Rules":
 
Section 6-Power Plays
 
Article 1. Teams are on a power play when they have at least a one-player
advantage on the ice for any amount of time. Teams defending the power play
are considered to be in a "penalty-killing" situation.
 
 
Feel free to interpret "any amount of time" however you'd like (is zero an
amount?), but if this happened at a Cornell home game (for which I am the
official scorer), I would not record it as a power play opportunity.
 
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