Tavares has seven goals and four assists during a six-game point streak; he has multiple points in each of his past five games. Tavares is two shy of becoming the first player selected in the 2009 NHL Draft to score 300 goals and will try to reach that milestone Saturday when he faces his former team, the New York Islanders, for the first time (7 p.m. ET; ESPN+, CBC, SN1, MSG+, NHL.TV). Tavares scored 272 goals during nine seasons with the Islanders before signing a seven-year, $77 million contract with the Maple Leafs on July 1.
The 28-year-old center has at least one point in 14 of 18 games at Scotiabank Arena this season, and he has nine goals and seven assists during an active 11-game home point streak. Since 1943-44, there have been seven instances of a Maple Leafs player with a home point streak of at least 12 consecutive games; Mats Sundin (2007-08) was the last to do it.