Oilers at Golden Knights preview

OILERS (32-32-7) at GOLDEN KNIGHTS (39-27-5)
10 p.m. ET; NBCSN, SNW, NHL.TV

Fleury is day to day with a lower-body injury, so Malcolm Subban will start for the Golden Knights, who lead the Arizona Coyotes by five points for third place in the Pacific Division and have won seven of their past eight games (7-1-0) after losing six of their previous seven (1-5-1).
The Oilers are playing the second game of a back to back after 3-2 win against the Coyotes at Gila River Arena on Saturday. Edmonton has won six of its past eight and trails Arizona by seven points for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Western Conference.

Players to watch

Oilers captain Connor McDavid has 21 points (five goals, 16 assists) during a personal 11-game point streak. He has 16 points (three goals, 13 assists) in a seven-game multipoint streak that's tied for the longest this season with Toronto Maple Leafs center Auston Matthews and Tampa Bay Lightning forward Nikita Kucherov.
Golden Knights forward Mark Stone has six points (two goals, four assists) in his past six games.

They said it

"To make it significant, we have to win two of three on this road trip. We're just trying to take it one game at a time." -- Oilers coach Ken Hitchcock
"He's a very good player. You've got to pay attention to him and know where he is on the ice. You've got to be aware." -- Golden Knights coach Gerard Gallant on Connor McDavid

Oilers projected lineup

Milan Lucic -- Connor McDavid -- Zack Kassian
Tobias Rieder -- Leon Draisaitl -- Alex Chiasson
Jujhar Khaira -- Ryan Nugent-Hopkins -- Sam Gagner
Joseph Gambardella -- Colby Cave -- Josh Currie
Oscar Klefbom -- Adam Larsson
Darnell Nurse -- Kris Russell
Andrej Sekera -- Matt Benning
Anthony Stolarz
Mikko Koskinen
Scratched:Ty Rattie, Kevin Gravel, Alexander Petrovic, Brad Malone, Kyle Brodziak
Injured: Jesse Puljujarvi (lower body)

Golden Knights projected lineup

Jonathan Marchessault -- William Karlsson -- Reilly Smith
Max Pacioretty -- Paul Stastny -- Mark Stone
Brandon Pirri -- Cody Eakin -- Alex Tuch
Ryan Carpenter -- Pierre-Edouard Bellemare -- Ryan Reaves
Nate Schmidt -- Deryk Engelland
Brayden McNabb -- Shea Theodore
Jon Merrill -- Colin Miller
Malcolm Subban
Maxime Lagace
Scratched:Tomas Nosek, Valentin Zykov, Nick Holden
Injured: Marc-Andre Fleury (lower body), Erik Haula (lower body), William Carrier (upper body)

Status report

Lagace was recalled from Chicago of the American Hockey League on an emergency basis. … Edmonton has not committed to a starting goalie.

Stat pack

Draisaitl has 36 points (19 goals, 17 assists) in his past 26 games. … Stastny has 10 points (two goals, eight assists) in his past nine games.