The Avalanche did not have a morning skate today due to the early start time, so the club's exact lineup likely won't be known until closer to game time.
Goaltender Devan Dubnyk has played the last two games for Colorado and stopped 25-of-27 shots in Thursday's matchup. Avs netminder Jonas Johansson last started on April 11 at Anaheim, making 24 saves in the victory and improving his record to 3-0-1 with the squad since being acquired in a trade with the Buffalo Sabres on March 20.
Goalie Philipp Grubauer was removed from the NHL's COVID-protocol list on Friday, but he won't join the Avs during this four-game trip that wraps up with contests on Monday in St. Louis and Wednesday at the Vegas Golden Knights.
The Avalanche has won 999 regular-season games since moving to Denver for the 1995-96 campaign and is looking to become the sixth NHL team reach 1,000 victories in the last 25 seasons.
Below is the Avalanche's projected lineup for today's game based on the forward combinations and defensive pairings from Thursday. They are subject to change.
Forwards
92 Gabriel Landeskog - 29 Nathan MacKinnon - 95 Andre Burakovsky
34 Carl Soderberg - 91 Nazem Kadri - 37 J.T. Compher
20 Brandon Saad - 17 Tyson Jost - 13 Valeri Nichushkin
38 Liam O'Brien - 41 Pierre-Edouard Bellemare - 61 Martin Kaut
Defensemen
49 Samuel Girard - 7 Devon Toews
27 Ryan Graves - 8 Cale Makar
24 Patrik Nemeth - 22 Conor Timmins
Goaltenders
40 Devan Dubnyk OR 35 Jonas Johansson
Taxi Squad: Kyle Burroughs, Peyton Jones, Keaton Middleton, Dan Renouf, Miikka Salomaki, Kiefer Sherwood, Adam Werner
Injury Report: Bowen Byram (upper body & COVID protocol-related absence), Matt Calvert (upper body), Joonas Donskoi (COVID protocol-related absence), Pavel Francouz (lower body), Philipp Grubauer (COVID protocol-related absence), Erik Johnson (upper body), Jacob MacDonald (lower body), Logan O'Connor (lower body), Mikko Rantanen (COVID protocol-related absence)
