Avalanche at Coyotes

AVALANCHE (9-6-1) at COYOTES (9-7-3)

Avalanche projected lineup
Gabriel Landeskog -- Nathan MacKinnon -- Mikko Rantanen
Brandon Saad -- Nazem Kadri -- Joonas Donskoi
Andre Burakovsky -- J.T. Compher -- Valeri Nichushkin
Matt Calvert -- Pierre-Edouard Bellemare -- Tyson Jost
Devon Toews -- Cale Makar
Ryan Graves -- Samuel Girard
Bowen Byram -- Jacob MacDonald
Hunter Miska
Philipp Grubauer
Scratched: None
Injured: Pavel Francouz (lower body), Dennis Gilbert (facial surgery), Erik Johnson (upper body)
Coyotes projected lineup
Clayton Keller -- Nick Schmaltz -- Conor Garland
Lawson Crouse -- Christian Dvorak -- Phil Kessel
Drake Caggiula -- Derick Brassard -- Tyler Pitlick
Michael Chaput
-- Johan Larsson -- Christian Fischer
Oliver Ekman-Larsson -- Ilya Lyubushkin
Jakob Chychrun -- Alex Goligoski
Jordan Oesterle -- Niklas Hjalmarsson
Adin Hill
Antti Raanta
Scratched: Jason Demers, John Hayden
Injured: Darcy Kuemper (lower body)
Status report
Saad returns after missing one game to be with his wife for the birth of the couple's second child. ... Miska makes his first start since Jan. 31. ... Hill makes his first start since Feb. 19, 2020; he made 14 saves after replacing Kuemper in the third period of a 4-3 shootout win against the Anaheim Ducks on Wednesday. ... Kuemper is day to day. ... Raanta (upper-body injury) is available for the first time since Feb. 13.