Predators at Avalanche preview

PREDATORS (11-3-0) at AVALANCHE (7-4-3)
10 p.m. ET; NBCSN

Rinne is 2-0-0 with a .986 save percentage in two games back after missing five games with an undisclosed injury.
The Predators also will try to win their seventh road game in a row and extend their regular-season winning streak against the Avalanche to 11 games.
Colorado will try to end a three-game losing streak (0-2-1). The Avalanche allowed 13 goals in the past two games, a 6-5 loss to the Calgary Flames on Thursday and 7-6 overtime loss to the Vancouver Canucks on Friday.

Players to watch

Predators forward Ryan Johansen has eight assists in the past six games.
Avalanche forward Mikko Rantanen leads the NHL with 24 points (five goals, 19 assists), and has eight points (one goal, seven assists) in the past four games.

They said it

"I don't know that there's a secret. There's no magic recipe. I think we've been pretty consistent for the most part with our game. For the most part we've been pretty steady." -- Predators coach Peter Laviolette on Nashville's 6-0-0 road record
"You want to get back on track, back on the winning side of things again. There's some things we need to clean up. This is a fun test for us, a fun challenge to see how we measure up against these guys." -- Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog

Predators projected lineup

Filip Forsberg -- Ryan Johansen -- Ryan Hartman
Calle Jarnkrok -- Kyle Turris -- Craig Smith
Frederick Gaudreau -- Nick Bonino -- Kevin Fiala
Zac Rinaldo -- Colton Sissons -- Miikka Salomaki
Roman Josi -- Ryan Ellis
Mattias Ekholm -- P.K. Subban
Anthony Bitetto -- Yannick Weber
Pekka Rinne
Juuse Saros
Scratched:Rocco Grimaldi, Matt Irwin
Injured: Viktor Arvidsson (lower body), Dan Hamhuis (lower body)

Avalanche projected lineup

Gabriel Landeskog -- Nathan MacKinnon -- Mikko Rantanen
Sheldon Dries -- Alex Kerfoot -- Colin Wilson
Matt Nieto -- Carl Soderberg -- Matt Calvert
Gabriel Bourque -- Vladislav Kamenev -- Marko Dano
Samuel Girard -- Erik Johnson
Ian Cole -- Tyson Barrie
Nikita Zadorov -- Patrik Nemeth
Semyon Varlamov
Philipp Grubauer
Scratched:Mark Barberio
Injured: Sven Andrighetto (lower body), J.T. Compher (head), Tyson Jost (head)

Status report

Arvidsson took part in the morning skate but he'll miss his third consecutive game. … Jost skated in the morning but will miss his fourth game in a row.

Stat pack

Forsberg has gone three games without a point after he had 12 points (nine goals, three assists) in the previous eight games. … Landeskog has six points (three goals, three assists) in a four-game point streak. … MacKinnon needs one assist for 200 in the NHL.