from Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic,

You get a power play, and you get a power play, and you get a power play!

If there is a central theme to the opening week of the Stanley Cup playoffs, it’s that there have been more penalties called than we’re used to at this time of year.

Clubs were notified before the postseason that the intention was to maintain the regular season’s officiating standard into the playoffs, to which they would have been forgiven had they responded by rolling their eyes.

Referees, however, have been calling tight games, for the most part.

Via TSN stats guru Kevin Gibson on Friday morning, here are the number of power-play opportunities handed out through the opening week of the playoffs to this point compared to last year.

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