In NHL action Wednesday, the Toronto Maple Leafs visit Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals.

The Leafs have stumbled lately, although they got off to a great start, and are now at 5-4-1, Washington is at 7-4-0.

The Maple leafs will be without forward Colby Armstrong, on the injury front. He is out indefinitely with a hand injury. Including forwards Boyd Gordon (Day-to-Day, undisclosed) and Marcus Johansson (Day-to-Day, hip injury); the Capitals have a number of players sidelines.

In the past 10 head-to-head matchups, Toronto is 5-5-0-0, seven of which have gone under the total. On Jan. 15 last season, the teams last met, when the Capitals blew out the Maple Leafs 6-1 and cashed as a -255 home favorite. Over the total of 5.5, went the score.

On Saturday was Toronto’s last game, when it lost 2-0 to the New York Rangers. A -150 moneyline home favorite was Toronto.

With a 7-2 shellacking of the Calgary Flames, Washington closed out a road trip. A -115 home favorite was Calgary.