Game day: Leafs at Edmonton Oilers

ROGERS PLACE FACEOFF: 7 p.m. TV: Sportsnet, CBC RADIO: TSN 1050 KEY PLAYERS

Draisaitl/Tavares Two top-goal scorers having special seasons. Leon Draisaitl leads the Oilers with 41 goals. He has a chance to become just the sixth player to score 50 in the last decade — joining Alex Ovechkin, Steven Stamkos, Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Corey Perry — and the first Oiler to reach that plateau since Wayne Gretzky and Jari Kurri in 1986-87. John Tavares has 37 goals for the Leafs, one shy of his career high set in 2014-15 with the Islanders.

NEED TO KNOW

The Oilers are on a four-game winning streak, and have gone 6-1-1 in their last eight, with plenty of help from Draisaitl (12-game point streak) and captain Connor McDavid (seven-game streak). The one regulation loss? A 6-2 loss in Toronto ... There’s plenty of talk in Edmonton about the lack of help on the wings for centres Draisaitl, McDavid and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins. The Oilers have gone with Zach Kassian on McDavid’s line of late, with some good results. They are also pondering using Sam Gagner on Draisaitl’s line, and dropping Milan Lucic to the fourth line ... Edmonton is still holding out hope for a playoff spot but the Oilers entered Friday seven points out of a wild-card berth, needing help from other teams.

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