OTTAWA -- Poking fun at the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Ottawa city council passed a resolution banning complaints about bad officiating inside or within 500 meters of the Corel Centre.

The mayor and all 21 councilors wore Ottawa Senators jerseys to their meeting to support the NHL team in its battle against their provincial rivals.

Later Wednesday, the Maple Leafs tied the second-round, best-of-seven series, 2-2, after a 2-1 victory in Ottawa.

As the meeting was called to order, Mayor Bob Chiarelli suspended the normal rules of order -- for which he cited "extraordinary circumstances" -- in order to allow Councilor Rick Chiarelli to introduce a motion declaring the perimeter of the hockey arena an official "no-cry" zone.

"It's called the CuJo Law," after Toronto goaltender Curtis Joseph, said Chiarelli. "For the Leafs, there are two kinds of games: those they lose because of the officiating and those they win despite the officiating."

Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman was not impressed with the motion.

"Is this an amendment to the `no fun allowed in Ottawa' bylaw?" asked Lastman, who went on to call Ottawa "the town that fun forgot."

After Ottawa's Daniel Alfredsson scored the winning goal in Monday's Game 3, Joseph was furious, arguing that he had been interfered with on the play.

Leafs forward Darcy Tucker waved a white towel from the bench in mock surrender to the referees.

Even in Toronto, the complaining did not go over well.

Columnists in both the Toronto Sun and Toronto Star blasted the Leafs for their constant whining.

"In Toronto, the Leafs are seen as a fine blend of talent and grit, loaded with classy players," wrote Sun columnist Al Strachan. "Elsewhere they are seen as an group of arrogant, whining bullies more properly ensconced in hockey's dark days of the 1970s than in the present era."

Under the headline "The lippy Leafs", Toronto Star hockey columnist Damien Cox gave similar sentiments.

"But under the guidance of Pat Quinn, the Leafs have also gained the reputation as hockey's most unrelenting whiners, a group that starts bellyaching as soon as they get to the rink if their cafe lattes aren't quite hot enough," Cox wrote.

"It is Quinn's day-to-day complaining that defines the character of this club, and has opened the door for Darcy Tucker and Shayne Corson to be reviled throughout the sport as divers and constant bitch-artists. To a lesser extent, Tie Domi and Gary Roberts also set the tone for the Leafs many nights with flailing-of-arms and constant carping."

But not all the Leafs are flailing their arms.

Toronto forward Alexander Mogilny thinks referees might be a little kinder to the Leafs if the team acted differently during the regular season.

"It doesn't happen overnight," Mogilny told reporters on Tuesday in Ottawa. "The whole year, if you're screaming and yelling at the refs ... there's no need for that. If somebody calls you bad names, that's not respect.

"You have to have respect for the refs. They have a difficult job out there. It's not easy."