Projected Lineup: Avalanche vs. Lightning

The Colorado Avalanche will dress the same lineup as it did in its last outing as the club returns home to face the Tampa Bay Lightning tonight at Pepsi Center.
The Avs are coming off a 3-0-1 road trip on the East Coast that was capped by a 4-1 win at the Philadelphia Flyers on Monday at Wells Fargo Center.

Goaltender Semyon Varlamov will get the start in net. He made 37 saves in that victory to improve to 4-0-2 in six games this year, his longest streak without a regulation loss to start a season.
Varlamov is tied for the NHL lead in wins (four), ranks fourth in goals-against average (1.64) and fifth in save percentage (.953).
Below is the Avalanche's projected lineup. All forward combinations and defensive couplings are subject to change.

Forwards

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

Defensemen

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

Goaltenders

1 Semyon Varlamov
31 Philipp Grubauer
Healthy Scratches:44 Mark Barberio, 91 Vladislav Kamenev
Injury Report:37 J.T. Compher (head)