(Ice) hockey: A situation where one team has a manpower advantage over the other, due to the assessment of penalties. The team with the power play normally spends most of the time attacking the other team's goal, using their numerical advantage to maintain puck control.

The mechanics of how penalty time works are well explained in the entry for shorthanded, and the usual alignment of attackers and defenders is diagrammed under penalty killing.

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