Coyotes at Maple Leafs preview

COYOTES (4-15-3) at MAPLE LEAFS (14-7-0)
7 p.m. ET; SNO, FS-A, NHL.TV

The Maple Leafs are on a season-high six-game winning streak after going 1-5-0 in their previous six games.
The Coyotes have won two in a row for the first time this season. They are 3-3-2 in their past eight games after starting 1-12-1.

Players to watch

Coyotes forward Anthony Duclair had a hat trick in a 3-2 overtime win against the Ottawa Senators on Saturday. He has five points (three goals, two assists) in his past four games.
Matthews scored twice in his return to the lineup, a 6-0 win against the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday. He missed four straight games with an upper-body injury.

They said it

"It's tough to chase the game. Everybody is so good in the NHL now, it's tough to chase the game every night, it's hard. Teams are so structured, there's a lot of good players on the other teams. You can't chase the game all the time." -- Coyotes coach Rick Tocchet
"I don't really put too many expectations; I just want to have fun. You're playing in the NHL, you want to do the best you can, learn as much as you can and I think I've done that so far. It's game 100, obviously I want to play a lot more than just 100 games and I think there are still a lot of things I can be better at and a lot of ways I can still improve." -- Maple Leafs center Auston Matthews

Coyotes projected lineup

Brendan Perlini -- Derek Stepan -- Tobias Rieder
Clayton Keller -- Brad Richardson -- Christian Fischer
Max Domi -- Christian Dvorak -- Anthony Duclair
Jordan Martinook -- Nick Cousins -- Zac Rinaldo
Oliver Ekman-Larsson -- Jason Demers
Alex Goligoski -- Niklas Hjalmarsson
Kevin Connauton -- Luke Schenn
Antti Raanta
Scott Wedgewood
Scratched:Mario Kempe, Michael Leighton, Joel Hanley
Injured:Jakob Chychrun (knee)

Maple Leafs projected lineup

Zach Hyman -- Auston Matthews - William Nylander
Patrick Marleau -- Nazem Kadri - Leo Komarov
James van Riemsdyk -- Tyler Bozak -- Mitchell Marner
Matt Martin -- Dominic Moore -- Connor Brown

Morgan Rielly -- Ron Hainsey
Jake Gardiner -- Nikita Zaitsev
Andreas Borgman -- Connor Carrick
Frederik Andersen
Curtis McElhinney

Scratched:Josh Leivo, Nikita Soshnikov, Roman Polak
Injured:None

Status report

Hjalmarsson will return to the Coyotes lineup after missing the past 10 games with an upper-body injury. … The Maple Leafs will use the same lineup from their game Saturday.

Stat pack

Keller has one assist in his past six games after having 13 points (eight goals, five assists) in his previous 10. … Andersen, who was named the NHL's Second Star for the week ending Nov. 19, is 4-0-0 and has allowed seven goals in his past four starts. He had two shutouts in two starts last week and has gone 130:08 without giving up a goal.