Fall down when grabbed. Throw your head back if a stick hits you in the face; just a couple of ways W Ryan Malone said can help the Lightning get a fair share of power plays in the playoffs.

"You're not embellishing, and you're not completely diving, like, you're not going to get into soccer or anything," Malone said before Friday's Game 2. "You just want to let the refs know you're being held or obstructed. That's what (the Penguins) did a good job of making clear."

Malone said the Penguins did a good job in Game 1 of embellishing infractions that are not serious but penalized nonetheless; C Max Talbot falling when C Dominic Moore grabbed his shoulder, and D Kris Letang throwing back his head when hit by D Mike Lundin's stick.

"I don't know if (Letang) threw Lundin's stick in his face or not, but he snapped his head back," Malone said. "He's okay. He wasn't bleeding, but the refs know you got whacked."

Of the Talbot-Moore incident, Malone said, "I'm sure Moore isn't strong enough with one hand to throw Talbot to the ice. But it's still a holding penalty. His arm is there on his shoulder, so all our penalties were penalties. We understand that.

"But I want to make sure if a guy cross-checks me and breaks his stick across my back, I should fall down just to let the refs know. You're just trying to get any edge you can."


Lightning GM Steve Yzerman agreed with Malone's take.

"More so than ever, hooking, holding, whatever, are embellished because as soon as a player puts his arm out like that he's subject to a penalty. And if you fall down, it's definitely a penalty," he said. "The rules the way they are, the fallout of that is you see more of it."

Not that embellishing is new.

"I played the game a long time," Yzerman said. "Everybody dives once in a while. I don't think it's anything anybody encourages, but it would be hypocritical of me to call a guy a diver when I did it myself."