Avalanche at Golden Knights

AVALANCHE (7-2-0) at GOLDEN KNIGHTS (10-0-1)

10 p.m. ET, SCRIPPS, ALT

Avalanche projected lineup

Artturi Lehkonen -- Nathan MacKinnon -- Mikko Rantanen

Tomas Tatar -- Ryan Johansen -- Valeri Nichushkin

Miles Wood -- Ross Colton -- Logan O’Connor

Andrew Cogliano -- Fredrik Olofsson -- Kurtis MacDermid

Devon Toews -- Cale Makar

Bowen Byram -- Samuel Girard

Jack Johnson -- Josh Manson

Alexandar Georgiev

Ivan Prosvetov

Scratched: Jonathan Drouin

Injured: Pavel Francouz (lower body)

Golden Knights projected lineup

Ivan Barbashev -- Jack Eichel -- Jonathan Marchessault

Paul Cotter -- Chandler Stephenson -- Mark Stone

Pavel Dorofeyev -- William Karlsson -- Michael Amadio

William Carrier -- Brett Howden -- Keegan Kolesar

Alec Martinez -- Alex Pietrangelo

Brayden McNabb -- Shea Theodore

Ben Hutton -- Brayden Pachal

Adin Hill

Logan Thompson

Scratched: Kaedan Korczak, Jonas Rondbjerg

Injured: Nicolas Hague (lower body), Nicolas Roy (undisclosed), Zach Whitecloud (upper body)

Status report

Lehkonen, a forward, and defensemen Makar and Byram did not participate in Colorado's morning skate Saturday, but each is are expected to play. … Georgiev will make his ninth start of the season after Prosvetov made 27 saves in a 4-1 win against the St. Louis Blues on Wednesday. ... The Avalanche assigned forward Ryan Tufte and defenseman Caleb Jones to Colorado of the American Hockey League on Wednesday. … Carrier, a forward, will be a game-time decision. … Whitecloud, a defenseman, skated in a red no-contact jersey, but will not play. … Hill and Thompson will alternate starts for the ninth straight game.