Sabres at Avalanche

SABRES (13-14-2) at AVALANCHE (15-10-2)

Sabres projected lineup
Casey Mittelstadt -- Tage Thompson -- Alex Tuch
JJ Peterka -- Dylan Cozens -- Jack Quinn
Rasmus Asplund -- Tyson Jost -- Victor Olofsson
Zemgus Girgensons -- Peyton Krebs -- Vinnie Hinostroza
Mattias Samuelsson -- Rasmus Dahlin
Kale Clague -- Owen Power
Lawrence Pilut -- Casey Fitzgerald
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen
Craig Anderson
Scratched: None
Injured: Henri Jokiharju (lower body), Ilya Lyubushkin (lower body), Eric Comrie (lower body), Kyle Okposo (lower body), Jacob Bryson (lower body)
Suspended: Jeff Skinner
Avalanche projected lineup
Artturi Lehkonen -- Mikko Rantanen -- Valeri Nichushkin
Alex Newhook -- Evan Rodrigues -- Dryden Hunt
Andrew Cogliano -- J.T. Compher -- Logan O'Connor
Jean-Luc Foudy -- Ben Meyers -- Charles Hudon
Samuel Girard -- Cale Makar
Devon Toews -- Erik Johnson
Brad Hunt -- Andreas Englund
Alexandar Georgiev
Pavel Francouz
Scratched: Jacob MacDonald
Injured: Gabriel Landeskog (knee), Darren Helm (hip), Bowen Byram (lower body), Shane Bowers (upper body), Kurtis MacDermid (lower body), Nathan MacKinnon (upper body), Josh Manson (lower body)
Status report
Hinostroza will return after missing five games because of an undisclosed injury. ... Okposo, a forward, and Bryson, a defenseman, each is day to day. … Comrie, a goalie, took part in the Sabres' morning skate Thursday and is also day to day; there's no target date for his return. … Rodrigues will return after missing nine games with a lower-body injury. ... Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said Landeskog, a forward, is progressing but hasn't resumed skating. ... Bednar said there no update on Byram, a defenseman, who has missed 17 games.