Shorthanded: A team with one or more players off the ice in the penalty box when the opponent has its full complement of 6 players; also a power play for the other team.

 

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Shorthanded: A team with one or more players off the ice in the penalty box when the opponent has its full complement of 6 players; also a power play for the other team.

Ragging: Retaining the puck by clever stickhandling; often used by a shorthanded team to kill time.

Power Play: An attack by a team at full strength against a team playing one man (or two men) shorthanded because of a penalty (or penalties) which resulted in a player on the opposing team receiving pen . . . View Full Definition

Penalty Killer: A player expert at backchecking and keeping or gaining control of a loose puck under difficult circumstances who is trained to break up a power play when his team is shorthanded.

Coincidental Penalties: When penalties are given out to opposing players at the same time. The result is that neither team will be playing shorthanded, because both teams will lose a player.