Toronto @ Edmonton preview

Last Meeting ( Mar 9, 2019 ) Toronto 3, Edmonton 2

The Toronto Maple Leafs seek their seventh straight victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday while completing a rugged four-game road trip. Toronto has won the last three season series while Frederik Andersen, who tries for career victory No. 200 on Saturday, is 11-0-1 with a .928 save percentage versus Edmonton.

Toronto started its trek with victories over St. Louis and Vancouver before losing to Calgary 4-2 on Thursday, and is 6-4-0 since Sheldon Keefe replaced Mike Babcock as coach. "I still think we have a long way to go in terms of structure, habits and those types of things,'' Keefe told reporters Thursday after his club lost for the third time in 14 games this season (11-1-2) when leading after two periods. "And there’s the defensive side when things go bad and how you handle those situations. That’s the stuff that takes a significant amount of time.” Edmonton has lost three straight after a 6-5 setback at Minnesota on Thursday and is 2-5-1 in its last eight games. "We're not panicking in here," Oilers captain Connor McDavid told reporters. "We lost three games, I think we're the last team in the league to lose three in a row, so, all teams have gone through it and we're going through it now. We have to dig in here. We're in a bit of a rut. It starts with the top guys, all the way down through the lineup. I've got be better. That's pretty much it."

TV: 7 p.m. ET, CBC, Sportsnet Ontario (Toronto), Sportsnet West, Sportsnet Pacific (Edmonton)

ABOUT THE MAPLE LEAFS (15-14-4): Auston Matthews, the team leader in goals (19) and points (34), was kept off the scoresheet Thursday after scoring three goals in the first two games on the trip. John Tavares (25 points) and Mitch Marner (24) each had a goal and an assist versus Calgary, giving Tavares three goals and five points in the past two contests and Marner six points in his last three. William Nylander (11 goals) hasn't scored in five December games after recording three in the last three November contests.

ABOUT THE OILERS (18-12-4): McDavid (57) and Leon Draisaitl (55), who are 1-2 in the NHL in points, each scored their 20th goal of the season Thursday. The duo, though, is a combined minus-18 in December and November after they were plus-17 in October. James Neal had a goal and an assist Thursday in his 800th game while Ryan Nugent-Hopkins has 400 career points after recording an assist.

OVERTIME

1. Edmonton boasts the league's top power-play unit at 32 percent and has scored at least once with the man advantage in its last six games (8-for-22).

2. Toronto is 5-2-0 versus the Pacific Division this season.

3. The Oilers were one of six teams in the league entering Friday with power-play and penalty-killing units in the top 10.

PREDICTION: Oilers 3, Maple Leafs 2