KANATA, Ont. — Ottawa Senators head coach Travis Green had some fun when asked about the NHL's investigation over a pre-game incident involving his club firing pucks at Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Anthony Stolarz during warmup.

"Well, it's an active investigation. I don't know if I should comment on that," Green said jokingly, acknowledging that he talked to Cousins about the incident.

"Nick Cousins and Stolarz have played together. I don't know. Yeah, he's probably trying to either laugh at him or make a joke or get him off his game, and it is what it is."

The Maple Leafs defeated the Senators 3-2 on Thursday to take a 3-0 stranglehold in their best-of-seven first-round series. On Friday morning, multiple reports surfaced of the NHL investigating a warmup incident between the two clubs before Game 3 took place.

Report: NHL Investigating Senators Firing Pucks At Maple Leafs' Anthony Stolarz In Game 3 Warmups The NHL is reportedly investigating an incident between the Ottawa Senators and Toronto Maple Leafs that occurred before Game 3.

Senators veteran David Perron had not seen the video when pressed about it on Friday morning, when told there was grainy video of the incident.

"We're going to have to bring back an HD for the warm-up," Perron joked. "I'm from the days where there was only 10 games in HD when I started my career. It sounds like we need to update quality of video on the warm-up. I haven't seen it, to be honest."

Thomas Chabot also says he didn't know anything about it until Friday morning. The defenseman usually fires pucks toward the opposing goal during warmups after the goaltenders have vacated the net, a tradition he started this season.

"We won a couple of games in a row when I started doing it," he said.

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What seems clear is the Senators don't believe this is a serious thing and were joking about it. And they're probably right. But with the team one game away from elimination, the incident has likely brought some levity to the room.

"I mean, guys have their own routine and stuff. I don't think it's like a get-in-their-head type thing," Sens defenseman Jake Sanderson said. "Guys have their own routines, superstitions and whatnot."

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