Capitals at Maple Leafs preview

CAPITALS (27-16-6) at MAPLE LEAFS (29-17-2)
7:30 p.m. ET; NBCSN, TVAS, SN, SN360, NHL.TV

Ovechkin has 1,178 points (643 goals, 535 assists) in 1,052 NHL games. Fedorov finished his NHL career in 2008-09 with 1,179 points (483 goals, 696 assists) in 1,248 games. Washington's captain had four points (three goals, one assist) in a 7-6 overtime loss to the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday.
The Capitals will try to avoid their seventh straight defeat, which would match their longest since Jan. 12-24, 2014 (0-5-2).
Goalie Frederik Andersen is likely to start for the Maple Leafs, who are 3-7-0 in their past 10 games and hope to avoid a season-high three game losing streak.

Players to watch

Capitals forward T.J. Oshie has six points (two goals, four assists) in his past four games
Maple Leafs center Auston Matthews has no goals in seven straight games and one in his past 13.

They said it

"I like our mental state right now, if I'm being honest. We're a positive group. Practices lately have been some of the best we've had all season. We're trying to work ourselves through it. It's not coming, turning around quick as we would like, obviously. That doesn't mean that you throw that out and try to be someone you're not, try to be a team that you're not." -- Capitals defenseman John Carlson
"We're obviously excited to play with one another. We just want to have fun out there, compete and play hard, create some offense and score some goals." -- Maple Leafs center Auston Matthews on playing with Patrick Marleau and Mitchell Marner

Capitals projected lineup

Alex Ovechkin -- Nicklas Backstrom -- T.J. Oshie
Jakub Vrana -- Evgeny Kuznetsov -- Tom Wilson
Dmitrij Jaskin -- Lars Eller -- Brett Connolly
Chandler Stephenson -- Travis Boyd -- Andre Burakovsky
Dmitry Orlov -- John Carlson
Michal Kempny -- Matt Niskanen
Brooks Orpik -- Jonas Siegenthaler
Braden Holtby
Pheonix Copley
Scratched:Nic Dowd, Devante Smith-Pelly, Madison Bowey
Injured:Christian Djoos (thigh)

Maple Leafs projected lineup

Patrick Marleau -- Auston Matthews -- Mitchell Marner
Zach Hyman -- John Tavares -- Kasperi Kapanen
Connor Brown -- Nazem Kadri -- William Nylander
Par Lindholm -- Frederik Gauthier --
Trevor Moore
Morgan Rielly -- Ron Hainsey
Travis Dermott -- Nikita Zaitsev
Martin Marincin -- Igor Ozhiganov
Frederik Andersen
Garret Sparks
Scratched:Justin Holl
Injured:Tyler Ennis (broken ankle), Andreas Johnsson (concussion), Jake Gardiner (back spasms)

Status report

The Capitals did not hold a morning skate. … Gardiner was paired with Zaitsev at Toronto's morning skate but is a game-time decision.

Stat pack

Carlson has four points (two goals, two assists) in his past four games… … Marner has six points (four goals, two assists) in his past six.