Avalanche at Sharks

AVALANCHE (34-12-4) at SHARKS (20-26-6)

Avalanche projected lineup
Gabriel Landeskog -- Nathan MacKinnon -- Mikko Rantanen
Nazem Kadri -- Alex Newhook -- Andre Burakovsky
Valeri Nichushkin -- Tyson Jost -- Joonas Donskoi
Carl Soderberg -- Pierre-Edouard Bellemare -- J.T. Compher
Devon Toews -- Cale Makar
Ryan Graves -- Conor Timmins
Patrik Nemeth -- Jacob MacDonald
Philipp Grubauer
Jonas Johansson
Scratched: Kyle Burroughs, Liam O'Brien, Dan Renouf, Kiefer Sherwood
Injured: Bowen Byram (upper body), Matt Calvert (upper body), Samuel Girard (lower body), Logan O'Connor (lower body), Brandon Saad (lower body)
COVID-19 protocol: Devan Dubnyk
Sharks projected lineup
Alexander Barabanov -- Tomas Hertl -- Evander Kane
Rudolfs Balcers -- Logan Couture -- Timo Meier
Noah Gregor -- Dylan Gambrell -- Kevin Labanc
Patrick Marleau -- Alexander True -- Alexander Chmelevski
Mario Ferraro -- Brent Burns
Nikolai Knyzhov -- Erik Karlsson
Marc-Edouard Vlasic -- Nicolas Meloche
Josef Korenar
Martin Jones
Scratched: Ivan Chekhovich, Ryan Donato, Christian Jaros, John Leonard, Brinson Pasichnuk, Marcus Sorensen
Injured: Joachim Blichfeld (upper body), Matt Nieto (lower body), Radim Simek (upper body)
Status report
Newhook will make his NHL debut after being recalled from Colorado of the American Hockey League on Sunday. … MacDonald will play after missing seven games with a lower-body injury. … Chmelevski and Meloche each will play after being recalled from San Jose of the AHL.