Golden Knights at Avalanche preview

GOLDEN KNIGHTS (32-24-4) at AVALANCHE (23-24-11)
9 p.m. ET; ALT, ATTSN-RM, NHL.TV

Subban made 29 saves in a 5-1 win against the Nashville Predators on Saturday for Vegas, which had lost three in a row and is nine points behind the San Jose Sharks for second place in the Pacific Division.
"Malcolm played a great game the other night and it's a good time to give [Marc-Andre Fleury] a little bit of a rest," Golden Knights coach Gerard Gallant said. "He played outstanding, so we're going to give him another shot tonight."
Colorado has lost six in a row at home, while being outscored 28-9, and is 1-6-3 in its past 10 games. The Avalanche are three points behind the Minnesota Wild for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Western Conference.

Players to watch

Golden Knights forward Paul Stastny has 13 points (two goals, 11 assists) in his past 13 games.
Avalanche forward Mikko Rantanen has three points (one goal, two assists) in his past 10 games and needs two for 200 in the NHL.

They said it

"I think we've just been finding ways to lose. Confidence was down a little bit. Just because we won one game doesn't mean everything's fixed. We have to find a consistent recipe to what makes us good." -- Golden Knights forward Paul Stastny
"Last year we had this carefree, nothing-to-lose attitude. I'd like to see us get that back. We had swagger, we always came to the rink with the belief that we were going to win." -- Avalanche coach Jared Bednar

Golden Knights projected lineup

Jonathan Marchessault -- William Karlsson -- Reilly Smith
Brandon Pirri -- Paul Stastny -- Alex Tuch
Max Pacioretty -- Cody Eakin -- Oscar Lindberg
William Carrier -- Pierre-Edouard Bellemare -- Ryan Reaves
Brayden McNabb -- Nate Schmidt
Shea Theodore -- Deryk Engelland
Jon Merrill -- Colin Miller
Malcolm Subban
Marc-Andre Fleury
Scratched:Jake Bischoff, Tomas Nosek, Valentin Zykov
Injured:Ryan Carpenter (undisclosed), Erik Haula (lower body), Nick Holden (undisclosed)

Avalanche projected lineup

Gabriel Landeskog -- Nathan MacKinnon -- Mikko Rantanen
Alex Kerfoot -- Tyson Jost -- J.T. Compher
Matt Nieto -- Carl Soderberg -- Matt Calvert
Sven Andrighetto -- Andrew Agozzino -- A.J. Greer
Samuel Girard -- Erik Johnson
Nikita Zadorov -- Tyson Barrie
Ryan Graves -- Patrik Nemeth
Semyon Varlamov
Philipp Grubauer
Scratched:Mark Barberio, Gabriel Bourque
Injured:Ian Cole (upper body), Vladislav Kamenev (shoulder), Colin Wilson (upper body)

Status report

Sheldon Dries and Dominic Toninato were reassigned to Colorado of the American Hockey League on Sunday and Agozzino was recalled.

Stat pack

Tuch had two assists against the Predators after going seven games without a point. … Landeskog needs one point for 400 in the NHL. … Vegas is 3-7-0 in its past 10 games.