Maple Leafs at Flyers preview

MAPLE LEAFS (20-10-1) at FLYERS (11-11-7)
7 p.m. ET; TVA Sports, NBCSP, TSN4, NHL.TV

Matthews is day to day because of an upper-body injury sustained when he collided with teammate Morgan Rielly with 2:50 remaining in the third period of a 4-3 win at the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday. Maple Leafs coach Mike Babcock said Matthews is traveling with the team and remains a possibility to play during the remaining two games of the trip, at the Minnesota Wild on Thursday or the Detroit Red Wings on Friday.
The Flyers return home after sweeping a three-game road trip through Western Canada that ended a 10-game losing streak (0-5-5).

Players to watch

Maple Leafs forward Patrick Marleau is one point from becoming the fourth active NHL player with 1,100 points. He'll join Calgary Flames forward Jaromir Jagr (1,921), former San Jose Sharks teammate Joe Thornton (1,412) and Chicago Blackhawks forward Marian Hossa (1,134).
Flyers forward Michael Raffl has goals in three straight games and five in his past eight.

They said it

"Day to day is normally 10 days. But we'll go day to day until he's ready. He's here this morning and doing everything. But he didn't skate and he's not playing." -- Maple Leafs coach Mike Babcock, on center Auston Matthews
"You can see the way we play the last three games. We had the lead and we played the right way to keep the lead. I think at the start of the year we didn't really do that." -- forward Claude Giroux on how the Flyers played during their Western Canada road trip

Maple Leafs projected lineup

Leo Komarov -- Nazem Kadri -- William Nylander
James van Riemsdyk -- Tyler Bozak -- Mitchell Marner
Zach Hyman -- Patrick Marleau -- Connor Brown
Matt Martin -- Dominic Moore -- Josh Leivo
Morgan Rielly -- Ron Hainsey
Jake Gardiner -- Nikita Zaitsev
Andreas Borgman -- Roman Polak
Frederik Andersen
Curtis McElhinney
Scratched:Connor Carrick, Kasperi Kapanen
Injured:Nikita Soshnikov (lower body), Auston Matthews (upper body)

Flyers projected lineup

Claude Giroux -- Sean Couturier -- Wayne Simmonds
Michael Raffl -- Valtteri Filppula -- Jakub Voracek
Jordan Weal -- Nolan Patrick -- Dale Weise
Taylor Leier -- Scott Laughton -- Travis Konecny
Ivan Provorov -- Andrew MacDonald
Shayne Gostisbehere -- Robert Hagg
Travis Sanheim -- Radko Gudas
Brian Elliott
Alex Lyon
Scratched:Jori Lehtera, Mark Alt
Injured:Michal Neuvirth (lower body), Brandon Manning (upper body)

Status report

The Maple Leafs recalled Kapanen from Toronto of the American Hockey League on Tuesday and placed Soshnikov on injured reserve. … Gudas will play after serving a 10-game suspension for slashing Winnipeg Jets forward Mathieu Perreault on Nov. 16.

Stat pack

The Maple Leafs lead the NHL with 73 5-on-5 goals. … Simmonds has goals in three straight games after scoring one in his previous 18. … Filppula has four points (goal, three assists) during a three-game point streak.