Projected Lineup: Avalanche at Hurricanes

The Colorado Avalanche isn't expected to make any changes to its lineup for today's matinee at the Carolina Hurricanes, and that includes in net.
Goaltender Philipp Grubauer will make his second-consecutive start and his third of the season for Colorado. On Thursday at the New Jersey Devils, he made 27 saves in the 5-3 win, his first with the Avalanche.

"We like what Grubi did, I also want to give him a chance to build off that game," said Avs head coach Jared Bednar after Friday's practice in Raleigh, North Carolina. "We were pretty good defensively, he was good and I want to see if he can bounce back and equal that performance, or even better that performance that he had the other night."
Grubauer has a 4-2-1 record, 2.70 goals-against average and .922 save percentage in eight career games against the Hurricanes.
Mark Barberio and Marko Dano are the expected healthy scratches for Colorado, while J.T. Compher remains out of the lineup as he continues to recover from a head injury.
Dano was added to the Avs' active roster on Friday and joined the club in Carolina. He was claimed by the team off waivers from the Winnipeg Jets on Monday.
Today's game at PNC Arena in Raleigh is set to begin at 11 a.m. MT. It is the first of seven road and 13 total day outings that the Avalanche will play this season.
Below is Colorado's projected lineup based on the forward combinations and defensive pairings from Friday's practice. They are subject to change.

Forwards

92 Gabriel Landeskog - 29 Nathan MacKinnon - 96 Mikko Rantanen
13 Alexander Kerfoot - 17 Tyson Jost - 22 Colin Wilson
83 Matt Nieto - 34 Carl Soderberg - 11 Matt Calvert
10 Sven Andrighetto - 91 Vladislav Kamenev - 57 Gabriel Bourque

Defensemen

49 Samuel Girard - 6 Erik Johnson
28 Ian Cole - 4 Tyson Barrie
16 Nikita Zadorov - 12 Patrik Nemeth

Goaltenders

31 Philipp Grubauer
1 Semyon Varlamov

Expected Healthy Scratches:44 Mark Barberio, 56 Marko Dano
Injured:37 J.T. Compher (head)