Toronto Maple Leafs at Nashville Predators: game preview
TorontoMaple Leafs2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 32-36-14 · 78 pts · 28that
NashvillePredators2026-27: 1-1-1 · 3 pts · 2025-26: 38-34-10 · 86 pts · 23rdEight points apart last season
Toronto finished last season 28th in the league on 78 points. Nashville finished 23rd on 86, and the 2025-26 season series went TOR 1-1-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 39
Across 38 completed games, Toronto lead the head-to-head 19-15-3.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 14 Oct 2025, Toronto were 17th in the league and Nashville 11th. By 6 Oct it was 18th and 21st.
Nashville out-attempted Toronto 324 to 280
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Toronto Maple Leafs
Nashville Predators
Nashville have created the better chances, last 10 games
Shot quality both ways: expected goals weigh every unblocked attempt by its chance of scoring. Finishing above zero means more goals than the chances.
This season: 4 games for Toronto, 3 for Nashville. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Toronto, 10 for Nashville.
2025-26: 82 games for Toronto, 82 for Nashville.
Power play and penalty kill, season and series
This season's rates first, then 2025-26 and the last meetings between the two. Power-play chances are counted from the penalty log with coincidental minors cancelled; faceoffs are each club's wins over draws taken.
All bars share one scale · 0–100%SeasonLast meetings
Toronto
Small sampleNashville
Small sampleAuston Matthews has 10 points in the last 5 meetings
Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away, then who has produced in the last meetings.
Auston Matthews vs Nashville · game by game
See all: Auston Matthews vs Nashville · game by game →Juuse Saros has started most of these meetings
Juuse Saros played 4 of the last 5 meetings with Toronto, with a .885 save percentage. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Toronto crease
TOR · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 15 Feb
Juuse Saros
See all: Juuse Saros →NSH · 1-1-1 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 15 Feb
Scoring rates point to about 6.3 goals
No total is posted yet: it arrives with the game-day prices. Until then, the scoring rates and the recent meetings set the range.
Goals in the last 5 meetings
Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.
Scoring rates
Toronto2.752.753.093.65
Nashville2.333.003.013.28Goals for and against per game. The estimate averages each team’s scoring with the other’s goals allowed, and leans on 2025-26 until a team has played 20 games.
6 on the injury lists
Toronto · injuries
Nashville · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed RW Nikita Grebenkin on injured reserve.
Moved C Max Domi from the non-roster list to long-term injured reserve.
Placed D Cade Webber on the injured non-roster list.
Recalled G Matt Murray from Milwaukee (AHL). Placed G Justus Annunen on injured reserve.
Recalled LW Yegor Pinchuk from Milwaukee (AHL). Assigned G Matt Murray to Milwaukee.
Recalled G Matthew Murray from Milwaukee (AHL).
Toronto · 2026 draft
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