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Power play?

This situation is peculiar in that in hockey, unlike some other team sports, numerical advantages are overwhelming advantages. For instance in soccer, which fields 11 players, if one player is ejected from the game (and he won’t be able to return), his team, playing 10 against 11, may still be able to manage.

Not so in ice hockey, with five players on each side. If you play five on four, the advantage becomes huge.

So huge, in fact, that the penalized team will do nothing but stay close to their goal in defense. It sounds like total capitulation and it is so. They’ll give up offense all together to just pass these two minutes by before their fellow can rejoin the team.

So huge is the advantage, in fact, that even though the penalized team huddle round their goal, often times they still cannot prevent the opposition from scoring – scoring what are known as power-play goals.

Power-play goals, again, are goals scored during power play, where one team has another under total control.

Hence and therefore, if a person is accused of using power play on another, you can imagine their relationship is one that’s lopsided in terms of power and strength, such as the relationship between the boss and a subordinate in an office. In such situations, the dominate party is often wont to use brutal force to get his way instead of using, say, tact.

The dominant boss in the office is not unlike the bully in school, who doesn’t feel the need to be considerate toward a pupil from a lower class because he’s so much bigger in age, size and strength. Instead, the bully gets his way by literally throwing his weight around.