OTTAWA - Senators head coach Travis Green suggested to reporters the Maple Leafs were manipulating the officials to get penalty calls.Toronto counterpart Craig Berube mused a few minutes later that Ottawa had intentionally bumped, slid into and fallen on his goaltender.Winnipeg Jets centre Mark Schiefele and St. Louis Blues netminder Joel Hofer, meanwhile, twice played a game of chicken at the end of warm-ups to see which player would be last off the ice.Intensity and emotion ramp up dramatically in the NHL playoffs. The same goes for the gamesmanship — that evergreen game within the game — at this time of year.The 2025 post-season is no different.Whether it's on the ice, in the media or behind closed doors, teams are looking for any edge they can find in best-of-seven series where the smallest details and fractions of percentage points can make the difference between victory and an early tee time."It's always there, it's always a part of it," Toronto defenceman Morgan Rielly said. "But I think it's equally as…

OTTAWA - Senators head coach Travis Green suggested to reporters the Maple Leafs were manipulating the officials to get penalty calls.