Projected Lineup: Avalanche at Blues

The Colorado Avalanche will use the same lineup for tonight's game at the St. Louis Blues as it did in Tuesday's victory in Minnesota.
Colorado defeated the Minnesota Wild 5-1 on Tuesday night in St. Paul to stretch its unbeaten streak to eight games (5-0-3) and finish the season series versus its Central Division rival with a 3-0-1 record.
Semyon Varlamov made 33 saves in that contest and will get the start in net for the Avalanche for the second game in a row. It will be the 15th straight contest that he has guarded the pipes for Colorado, but the streak is still well short of his career high for consecutive games played of 22 (all starts) that he set from Jan. 15 to March 8, 2015.

Varlamov is 4-0-3 in his last eight games (seven starts), posting a 2.21 goals-against average and .932 save percentage in that time. Only Marc-Andre Fleury of the Vegas Golden Knights has seen more ice time since Feb. 26 (eight starts).
Spencer Martin will be the backup netminder for Colorado, as Jonathan Bernier and Andrew Hammond are both out with head injuries but are skating and continue to make progress in their recovery.
Defensemen Mark Alt and Anton Lindholm and forward Nail Yakupov will be Colorado's healthy scratches.
Below is the anticipated lineup for Colorado. All line combinations and defensive pairings are subject to change.

Forwards

92 Gabriel Landeskog - 29 Nathan MacKinnon - 96 Mikko Rantanen
17 Tyson Jost - 37 J.T. Compher - 10 Sven Andrighetto
83 Matt Nieto - 34 Carl Soderberg - 14 Blake Comeau
57 Gabriel Bourque - 13 Alexander Kerfoot - 47 Dominic Toninato

Defensemen

16 Nikita Zadorov - 4 Tyson Barrie
12 Patrik Nemeth - 49 Samuel Girard
15 Duncan Siemens - 5 David Warsofsky

Goaltenders

1 Semyon Varlamov (Starter)
30 Spencer Martin (Backup)
Healthy Scratches: Mark Alt, Anton Lindholm, Nail Yakupov
Injury Report: Mark Barberio (upper body), Jonathan Bernier (head), Andrew Hammond (head), Erik Johnson (upper body), Colin Wilson (head)
Tonight is the fourth meeting of the season between the Avalanche and Blues, and the last of three contests at Scottrade Center. St. Louis won each of the previous three matchups but is 4-7-2 since the clubs last met on Feb. 8.
The Blues will have defenseman Joel Edmundson back in the lineup after he missed 13 contests with a broken forearm. He got hurt in the last game versus Colorado on Feb. 8 and was supposed to miss six weeks. Edmundson came back a week earlier than expected.
Below is a projected lineup for the Blues and is subject to change.

Forwards

17 Jaden Schwartz - 10 Brayden Schenn - 91 Vladimir Tarasenko
21 Patrik Berglund - 28 Kyle Brodziak - 20 Alex Steen
23 Dmitrij Jaskin - 71 Vladimir Sobotka - 32 Tage Thompson
90 Nikita Soshnikov - 49 Ivan Barbashev - 22 Chris Thorburn

Defenseman

4 Carl Gunnarsson - 27 Alex Pietrangelo
29 Vince Dunn - 55 Colton Parayko
6 Joel Edmundson - 41 Robert Bortuzzo

Goaltenders

34 Jake Allen (Starter)
35 Ville Husso (Backup)