The Maple Leafs held a team meeting at Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa on Friday.

The NHL's Department of Player Safety fined Nick Cousins $2,083.33, the maximum allowable under the collective bargaining agreement, for unsportsmanlike conduct on Friday. The Senators forward shot multiple pucks at Leafs goalie Anthony Stolarz while he stretched near the red line during warm-ups prior to Game 3 on Thursday night.

The Senators have also been fined $25,000. Despite the punishment, no one on either side of the Battle of Ontario seemed particularly concerned about what happened. In fact, Senators coach Travis Green found some levity in the situation even though his team is trailing the Leafs 3-0 in the series and set to face elimination on Saturday night.

"It’s an active investigation," Green said, tongue-in-cheek, before the league announced the levy. "I don’t know if I should be commenting on that right now."

Your humble correspondent pressed the coach for more.

"I have people that have advised me maybe not to comment on it," Green said to laughs. "I'm kidding. Cousins and Stolarz have played together. I don’t know. Yeah, he’s probably trying to laugh at him or make a joke or get him off his game. It is what it is."

TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger was first to report that the league was looking into the matter. Grainy video then surfaced on social media showing Cousins shooting at least one puck at Stolarz.

"We’re going to have to bring back HD for the warm-up too," quipped veteran Senators forward David Perron. "I’m from the days when there was only 10 games in HD when I started my career. It sounds like we need to up the quality of video in warmups too. I haven’t seen it, to be honest."

Cousins and Stolarz played together last season with the Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers. They were also teammates earlier in their careers with the Philadelphia Flyers.

Leafs coach Craig Berube, meanwhile, was only vaguely aware of what happened.

"I don’t think it’s anything," he said. "I mean, they played together last year. I don’t even know who did it. I don’t know a lot about it to be honest with you. I mean, the league will handle that."

Green did talk to Cousins about what happened.

"He said, ‘I know him. Game within the game,'" Green relayed. "Happens probably a lot more than you think."

"I’ve definitely thrown a couple pucks across the ice when I’ve played against some old teammates," said Leafs defenceman Brandon Carlo. "So nothing really there."

Berube was asked if he was ever involved in any pre-game flashpoints during his playing days. The 59-year-old recalled how his Flyers teammate Keith Acton "loved to get stuff going in warm-ups." Flyers goalie Ron Hextall was also known to fire the odd puck down the ice.........

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