Maple Leafs at Blue Jackets preview

MAPLE LEAFS (25-10-2) at BLUE JACKETS (22-12-3)
7 p.m. ET; ESPN+, FS-O, SNO, NHL.TV

The 39-year-old center will play his 1,613th NHL game and move past Ray Bourque (1,612 games). Marleau is three games shy of Larry Murphy (1,615 games) for ninth place all time.
The Maple Leafs and Blue Jackets each will put winning streaks on the line.
Toronto seeks its fifth straight victory, which would match its longest winning streak this season; the Maple Leafs won five consecutive games twice, from Oct. 7-15 and from Nov. 24-Dec. 4.
Columbus looks to extend its winning streak to a season-long six games. The Blue Jackets also can establish a season-best point streak; they are 6-0-1 in their past seven games following a 4-3 overtime victory at the New York Rangers on Thursday. The Blue Jackets went 5-0-2 from Nov. 6-17.

Players to watch

Maple Leafs defenseman Morgan Rielly has 11 points (three goals, eight assists) in a five-game point streak.
Blue Jackets goalie Sergei Bobrovsky, who did not play against New York, is 4-0-0 with a 1.00 goals-against average, .970 save percentage and two shutouts in his past four games.

They said it

"They're going to be tired from the back-to-back, but they've got their legs under them. They're back to game speed. We'll have to warm up extra hard and be ready to go." -- Maple Leafs defenseman Jake Gardiner on not having played Thursday after the holiday break
"This happens every night. Teams don't play their best, but they find ways to win. We've got a little bit of a run going here. Prior to these last three games we played five or six really good games and didn't get all the results we wanted." -- Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella after the win Thursday

Maple Leafs projected lineup

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

Blue Jackets projected lineup

Artemi Panarin -- Pierre-Luc Dubois -- Cam Atkinson
Nick Foligno -- Alex Wennberg -- Anthony Duclair
Oliver Bjorkstrand -- Boone Jenner -- Josh Anderson
Markus Hannikainen -- Brandon Dubinsky -- Riley Nash
Zach Werenski -- Seth Jones
Ryan Murray -- Markus Nutivaara
Scott Harrington -- David Savard
Sergei Bobrovsky
Joonas Korpisalo
Scratched: Lukas Sedlak, Dean Kukan
Injured: None

Status report

Ozhiganov returns after missing three games because of an illness; Holl will be scratched. … The Blue Jackets did not hold a morning skate.

Stat pack

Tavares has nine points (five goals, four assists) in a five-game point streak. … Marner has nine points (six goals, three assists) in his past five games. … Panarin has six points (two goals, four assists) in a three-game point streak and is one goal shy of 100 in the NHL.