# Power play (hockey) face-off question **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 2, 2010, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-play-hockey-face-off-question/562636 "2010-12-02T06:01:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-play-hockey-face-off-question/562636/1 "2010-12-02T06:01:00Z")
Suppose a period ends with a delayed penalty call one one team. Is the opening face-off of the next period at central ice or in the offensive zone of the team on the power play? ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-play-hockey-face-off-question/562636/2 "2010-12-02T13:53:28Z")
Centre Ice. ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-play-hockey-face-off-question/562636/3 "2010-12-03T17:53:31Z")
The NHL helpfully publishes their full rulebook online. [Here](http://www.nhl.com/ice/page.htm?id=26487) is the relevant entry. > [@](#): > > When players are penalized at a stoppage of play so as to result in penalties being placed on the penalty time clock to one team, the ensuing face-off shall be conducted at one of the two face-off spots in the offending team’s end zone. There are only four exceptions to this application: > > […] > > (ii) when a penalty is assessed at the end (or start) of a period - face-off at center ice;