Overview
- Puck drop is 7:30 p.m. ET at Scotiabank Arena with coverage on TNT and streaming on HBO Max, DirecTV and SlingTV.
- Toronto arrives on a six-game point streak (4-0-2) powered by Auston Matthews, who passed Mats Sundin with 421 career goals and has six goals and four assists in his past four games.
- Florida begins a six-game road swing after a 2-1 win over Colorado that ended the Avalanche’s 10-game winning run, highlighted by Daniil Tarasov’s 27 saves.
- Injury notes: Jake McCabe could miss up to a week for Toronto and William Nylander is on injured reserve retroactive to Dec. 27; Florida’s Seth Jones is week-to-week with an upper-body injury.
- Toronto is 14-5-5 at home with five straight wins at Scotiabank Arena, while Florida enters at 22-16-3 (47 points) and the Leafs sit at 19-15-7 (45 points).