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Bradford’s Five Thoughts: Where have all the power plays gone?

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Jamie Oleksiak scraps with Nick Bjugstad in the third period. - JOEL AUERBACH / AP

SUNRISE, Fla. -- You know the playoffs are coming soon when the refs have already put the whistles away for the summer. The league's crackdown on slashing, apparently, has run its course.

Well, it's either that or teams -- wink, wink -- aren't taking penalties against the Penguins anymore, mindful of the NHL's top power play.

Uh, no. Mike Sullivan wasn't having of any that when I asked after Saturday's 6-5 loss to the Panthers at BB&T Center:

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