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“We are treating this seriously enough that we had Erik Karlsson and Marc Methot tape a bilingual message after practice today that will play in tomorrow’s game — the message will support the above asking fans not to toss anything on the ice during the game.”

The practice of tossing hamburgers onto the ice has accelerated during the team’s recent success led by Andrew (The Hamburglar) Hammond in goal with wrapped burgers littering the ice late in games, causing a messy delay while crews clean up the debris.

Meanwhile, local foodbanks are asking fans to think of all the mouths they could feed with the burger money they save.

“They are paying so much for (burgers),” said Denise Herbert, administrator at the Osgoode Community Food Cupboard. “And if the money was donated to the food bank there’s so much we could buy with it. So it’s a lot of money wasted.”

Herbert says while it’s fun to support the Sens and The Hamburglar, who has taken the spotlight with 14 wins in 15 starts, there are other ways to celebrate his winning streak.

“I don’t really think they need to (throw) something on the ice, they could just wear the mask,” said Herbert. “There are so many people hard up, really hard up. They have no income whatsoever for whatever reason and they can’t even put gas in their car to go look for a job, it’s ridiculous.

And then how much are those hamburgers? $5 each?”