Game 3 Projected Lineup: Avalanche at Golden Knights

The Colorado Avalanche's second-round playoff series against the Vegas Golden Knights shifts to Southern Nevada tonight for Game 3 at T-Mobile Arena.
The Avs hold a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series and are expected to use the same lineup as they did in both Games 1 and 2 in Denver.
Philipp Grubauer is 6-0 this postseason, tying the franchise record for consecutive wins in a playoff year set by Quebec's Mario Gosselin in 1987. He has now won 10 straight playoff decisions dating back to last year, a franchise record and the eighth-longest streak in NHL history.

Colorado's top line of Gabriel Landeskog (four goals, seven assists), Nathan MacKinnon (eight goals, five assists) and Mikko Rantanen (three goals, seven assists) have combined for 34 points and a plus-25 rating through six games this postseason. The Avs are the first team with three 10-point scorers through six games in a playoff year since the 2006 Ottawa Senators (Martin Havlat, Dany Heatley, Jason Spezza).
Forward Logan O'Connor, who last played on March 31, is ahead of schedule in his recovery from surgery due to a lower-body injury and joined the group for morning skate today but will not play in Game 3 against Vegas.
Below is the Avalanche's projected lineup based on the forward combinations and defensive pairings from Wednesday's Game 2. They are subject to change.
Forwards
92 Gabriel Landeskog - 29 Nathan MacKinnon - 96 Mikko Rantanen
20 Brandon Saad - 17 Tyson Jost - 13 Valeri Nichushkin
95 Andre Burakovsky - 37 J.T. Compher - 72 Joonas Donskoi
75 Sampo Ranta - 41 Pierre-Edouard Bellemare - 18 Alex Newhook
Defensemen
7 Devon Toews - 8 Cale Makar
49 Samuel Girard - 27 Ryan Graves
24 Patrik Nemeth - 22 Conor Timmins
Goaltenders
31 Philipp Grubauer
40 Devan Dubnyk
Scratches:Bowen Byram, Jonas Johansson, Nazem Kadri (suspended), Jacob MacDonald, Kiefer Sherwood, Carl Soderberg
Injury Report: Matt Calvert (upper body), Pavel Francouz (lower body), Erik Johnson (upper body), Jayson Megna (COVID protocol), Logan O'Connor (lower body)
The Golden Knights have some game-time decisions tonight as forwards Mattias Janmark, Alex Tuch and Tomas Nosek, defenseman Alex Martinez and goaltender Robin Lehner did not participate in morning skate, and head coach Peter DeBoer said afterward that anybody not on the ice today is a game-time decision.
Forward Ryan Reaves will once again be out of the lineup for Vegas as he will be serving the second of a two-game suspension for roughing and unsportsmanlike conduct on Ryan Graves from Game 1 on Sunday.
Below is the Golden Knights' projected lineup based on the forward combinations and defensive pairings from Game 2.
Forwards
67 Max Pacioretty - 20 Chandler Stephenson - 61 Mark Stone
81 Jonathan Marchessault - 71 William Karlsson - 19 Reilly Smith
15 Dylan Sikura - 10 Nicolas Roy - 89 Alex Tuch
28 William Carrier - 38 Patrick Brown - 55 Keegan Kolesar
Defensemen
23 Alec Martinez - 7 Alex Pietrangelo
22 Nick Holden - 27 Shea Theodore
14 Nicolas Hague - 2 Zach Whitecloud
Goaltenders
29 Marc-Andre Fleury
36 Logan Thompson