Game 3 Projected Lineup: Avalanche at Stars

The Colorado Avalanche is not expected to make any changes to its personnel for tonight's Game 3 against the Dallas Stars, however head coach Jared Bednar said there will be a couple game-time decisions for the roster.
Bednar noted on Tuesday that his staff has talked about moving Gabriel Landeskog off of a trio with Nathan MacKinnon and Mikko Rantanen to jumpstart other lines, much like he did at times throughout the regular season. He added this morning that different forward trios will be featured in the contest but did not say what threesomes he is planning on using.

"I am not going to break it up all together, but you will see a few different combinations going in tonight's game depending on how things go," Bednar said of his lineup.
Forward Matt Calvertwill not dress for tonight's contest and he has yet to play in the best-of-seven set. He joins Philipp Grubauer and Erik Johnson on the team's injured list.
Goaltender Pavel Francouz will be in net for the Avs. He made 22 saves on 26 shots in Colorado's 5-2 loss on Monday in Game 2.
Below is the Avalanche's projected lineup for Game 3 based on the start from Monday's contest. The forward combinations and defensive pairings are expected to change.
Forwards
92 Gabriel Landeskog - 29 Nathan MacKinnon - 96 Mikko Rantanen
95 Andre Burakovsky - 91 Nazem Kadri - 72 Joonas Donskoi
17 Tyson Jost - 37 J.T. Compher - 90 Vladislav Namestnikov
83 Matt Nieto - 41 Pierre-Edouard Bellemare - 13 Valeri Nichushkin
Defensemen
27 Ryan Graves - 8 Cale Makar
49 Samuel Girard - 28 Ian Cole
16 Nikita Zadorov - 7 Kevin Connauton
Goaltenders
39 Pavel Francouz
35 Michael Hutchinson
Goaltender Ben Bishop and defenseman Stephen Johns both remain unfit to play. Bishop was last between the pipes on Aug. 13 in Game 2 of the Stars' first-round series against the Calgary Flames. Johns' last appearance was Game 1 against the Flames on Aug. 11.
Dallas is not expected to make any changes to its forward combinations or defensive pairings for the Game 3 matchup. Below is the Stars' projected lineup based on the start of Monday's Game 2. It is subject to change.
Forwards
14 Jamie Benn - 91 Tyler Seguin - 47 Alexander Radulov
13 Mattias Janmark - 16 Joe Pavelski - 34 Denis Gurianov
18 Jason Dickinson - 24 Roope Hintz - 10 Corey Perry
11 Andrew Cogliano - 12 Radek Faksa - 15 Blake Comeau
Defensemen
23 Esa Lindell - 3 John Klingberg
2 Jamie Oleksiak - 4 Miro Heiskanen
5 Andrej Sekera - 42 Taylor Fedun
Goaltenders
35 Anton Khudobin
29 Jake Oettinger