Coyotes at Avalanche

COYOTES (11-10-3) at AVALANCHE (13-7-2)

Coyotes projected lineup
Clayton Keller -- Christian Dvorak -- Tyler Pitlick
Lawson Crouse -- Nick Schmaltz -- Conor Garland
Derick Brassard -- Johan Larsson -- Phil Kessel
John Hayden --
Frederik Gauthier
-- Christian Fischer
Jakob Chychrun -- Alex Goligoski
Jordan Oesterle -- Niklas Hjalmarsson
Oliver Ekman-Larsson -- Jason Demers
Darcy Kuemper
Antti Raanta
Scratched:Drake Caggiula, Ilya Lyubushkin
Injured:None
Avalanche projected lineup
Gabriel Landeskog -- Mikko Rantanen -- Valeri Nichushkin
Brandon Saad -- Nazem Kadri -- Andre Burakovsky
Tyson Jost -- Jayson Megna -- Joonas Donskoi
Matt Calvert -- Pierre-Edouard Bellemare -- Logan O'Connor
Dan Renouf -- Devon Toews
Jacob MacDonald -- Samuel Girard
Ryan Graves -- Greg Pateryn
Philipp Grubauer
Hunter Miska
Scratched:None
Injured:Bowen Byram (upper body), J.T. Compher (upper body), Pavel Francouz (lower body), Dennis Gilbert (facial surgery), Erik Johnson (upper body), Nathan MacKinnon (head), Cale Makar (upper body), Conor Timmins (upper body)
Status report
MacKinnon, a center, skated Monday morning wearing a non-contact jersey. He will miss his third straight game. … Makar, a defenseman, skated but will miss his sixth straight game. … Calvert returns after missing six games with an upper-body injury he sustained Feb. 24 against the Minnesota Wild. ... Gilbert was removed from NHL COVID-19 protocol and skated Monday but the defenseman remains out.