What is Power Play Goals?
Goals scored by your team while they have a numerical advantage due to the other team's penalty.
What this tells us
When your team has more players on the ice than the other team (usually 5-on-4 or 5-on-3), how many times did they put the puck in the net? A higher number means your team is converting their chances when they have the advantage. This is one of the most important special teams stats because power plays are your best scoring opportunities in a game.
Limitations
Power play goals don't tell you how efficiently your team is using those chances — a team that scores 5 PPG on 25 power plays is much more dangerous than a team that scores 5 PPG on 40 power plays. That's why we also show Power Play %, which measures conversion rate. Also, the number of power plays a team gets depends partly on how the game is called and how physical the other teams are, not just your team's performance.
Formula[show]
Count of goals scored while the team has a man advantage (opponent in the penalty box).Example
A strong power play might score 40-50 power play goals over a full season. A weak one might score only 20-25. Over 82 games with roughly 4-5 power plays per game, a team gets around 300-400 chances per season, so conversion matters enormously.