Maple Leafs at Senators preview

MAPLE LEAFS (6-1-0) at SENATORS (3-1-3)
7 p.m. ET; CBC, CITY, TVA Sports, NHL.TV

The Maple Leafs, who lead the NHL with 34 goals, have outscored opponents 12-6 in their past three games.
The Senators are winless at home (0-1-3) after a 5-4 overtime loss to the New Jersey Devils on Thursday.
Goaltender Craig Anderson will start for Ottawa; he's 2-1-3 with a 2.40 goals-against average; goaltender Frederik Andersen, 5-1-0 with a 3.14 GAA, will start for Toronto.

Players to watch

Maple Leafs forward Auston Matthews has 10 points (six goals, four assists) and points in six of seven games this season. He has two game-winning goals.
Senators defenseman Erik Karlsson will play his third game since returning from surgery on his left foot to repair torn tendons June 14. Karlsson had three assists and played 27:08 against the Devils; he played 22:25 in his first game Tuesday, a 3-0 loss against the Vancouver Canucks.

They said it

"[The Senators] live off their neutral zone forecheck and breaking out quick and transition. So you can't feed their transition. Whatever you want to call that, you can't do it." -- Maple Leafs coach Mike Babcock
"We've had some good games here at home, but we've just let it slip, a couple of two-goal leads going into third periods. Letting other teams come back is something we need to improve on." -- Senators forward Mike Hoffman

Maple Leafs projected lineup

Zach Hyman -- Auston Matthews -- William Nylander
Patrick Marleau -- Nazem Kadri -- Leo Komarov
James van Riemsdyk -- Tyler Bozak -- Connor Brown
Matt Martin -- Dominic Moore -- Mitchell Marner
Morgan Rielly -- Ron Hainsey
Jake Gardiner -- Nikita Zaitsev
Andreas Borgman -- Connor Carrick
Frederik Andersen
Curtis McElhinney
Scratched: Eric Fehr, Josh Leivo, Calle Rosen
Injured: None

Senators projected lineup

Ryan Dzingel -- Kyle Turris -- Alexandre Burrows
Bobby Ryan -- Derick Brassard -- Mark Stone
Mike Hoffman -- Jean-Gabriel Pageau -- Tom Pyatt
Nate Thompson -- Logan Brown -- Christopher DiDomenico
Johnny Oduya -- Erik Karlsson
Dion Phaneuf -- Cody Ceci
Fredrik Claesson -- Chris Wideman
Craig Anderson
Mike Condon
Scratched: None
Injured: Colin White (left wrist), Ben Harpur (shoulder), Mark Borowiecki (upper body), Zack Smith (upper body)

Status report

Smith, injured against the Devils on Thursday, is expected to miss about a week … DiDomenico was recalled from Belleville of the American Hockey League on Friday.

Stat pack

The Maple Leafs have the third-ranked power play in the NHL at 30 percent. … The Senators' penalty-killers are ranked second at 95.2 percent. … Kadri has four points (two goals, two assists) during a three-game point streak. … Turris has eight points (three goals, five assists) in his past five games.