The travelling Toronto Maple Leafs circus is coming to town, and they're bringing their jerseys, too.

Three Maple Leafs fans were removed by Air Canada Centre security and issued tickets after throwing jerseys onto the ice during a 4-1 loss to the lowly Carolina Hurricanes on Monday night.

And now one local Leafs fan is debating dumping his sweater at Canadian Tire Centre.

Alain Laird has a seat smack-dab in between both team's benches and said he's thinking about throwing his first and only Leafs jersey if the game gets out of hand.

"I'm considering throwing it at the Leafs bench actually," said Laird, a Leafs fan from Barrhaven, who only buys tickets when his team's in town. "It's a build up of emotions and disappointment. I almost burnt all my Leafs stuff two years ago when they lost against the (Boston) Bruins in Game 7."

Ryan Fancey, a Leafs fan in Ottawa and writer at the Leafs Nation website, said he could never actually toss a jersey onto the ice but could see a few others doing so.

"Honestly, if the score got out of hand against the Sens, I think you'd see the most Leafs jerseys tossed yet," said Fancey.

But the Senators organization said it's prepared for any potential jersey throwers.

"The Canadian Tire Centre's policy is that any patron who would throw items onto the ice would be ejected from the CTC," said Brian Morris, senior director of communications for the Ottawa Senators.

Const. Chuck Benoit of the Ottawa police said a few more officers will be on duty in preparation for the thousands of Leafs fans that will descend upon Kanata Wednesday night.

But he clarified fans can't actually be charged for throwing a jersey onto the ice during the Battle of Ontario. "I've never known of a police charge for tossing a jersey," said Benoit.

"During a game, all the officers there work for the arena and the property manager (Canadian Tire Centre) has the right to throw out anyone who's creating havoc."

Benoit added Ottawa Police can only charge a jersey thrower if the arena staff say the culprit is either under the influence or misbehaving.

"We have the authority to have them evicted and police can issue them a trespassing ticket if they're misbehaving or too drunk," he explained. "We can't handcuff them. Security would identify them to us, but it's up to them to kick them out."

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