Maple Leafs coach Craig Berube held a media availability at the team hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. on Monday. Panthers coach Paul Maurice met with the media at the Baptist Health Iceplex.
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In the final seconds of Florida’s 2-0 win in Game 4, Leafs forward Max Domi hit Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov into the boards from behind.

"The league looks at those things very closely," Panthers coach Paul Maurice noted on Sunday night, "especially at that point in the game.”

Leafs coach Craig Berube shrugged when asked about the play on Monday as his team prepared to fly home to Toronto.

“Whatever,” he said. “That’s the league's stuff. I haven't heard anything, so I don't know. I doubt it.”

The NHL later announced it was fining Domi $5,000, the maximum allowable under the collective bargaining agreement, for boarding.

Berube used the question about the Domi hit to shift the focus.

“To me, the [Dmitry] Kulikov hit on [Mitch] Marner was 10 times worse,” he said.

The Panthers defenceman elbowed the Leafs winger in the head after Marner passed a puck in the second period. There was no call on the play.

Maurice had no interest in getting into a war of words with his counterpart on Monday as the Panthers gathered at their practice facility.

“I don’t care,” Florida's coach responded when asked about Berube’s comment. “Everybody has an opinion. Mine right now is it’s the day after a game, but two days away from our next, and I don’t really have anything for you. Yeah, fine.”

Fair enough. But with the series now even at two games a piece, the temperature is clearly rising on the ice.

“It's normal,” Berube said. “We expected it and I think we're fine with it. We're handling it, we're physical. I thought we were the more physical team last night.”

The Panthers lead the playoffs in hits per 60 minutes, but the Leafs held a 47-40 edge in that category on Sunday. Notably, defenceman Simon Benoit levelled winger Sam Reinhart with a big check during a Panthers power play.

Leafs defenceman Oliver Ekman-Larsson was later assessed an interference penalty for hitting Evan Rodrigues when he didn't have the puck. That knocked the Panthers winger out of the game. He was still being evaluated on Monday.

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