Girgensons has been sidelined for seven games with a mid-body injury. Reinhart missed two games with an illness and said he started to turn it around on Wednesday, when we found himself able to hit the gym again.
"I feel obviously the best I have in the last week today," Reinhart said after Saturday's morning skate at Pepsi Center. "It's been a while for everyone and even longer for me so I'm pretty ready to get back it tonight."
Players were in agreement that yesterday's up-tempo practice - albeit brief - was beneficial in helping them get back up to speed after the mandatory break.
"Coming out of the bye week, it's good to get our legs going again, especially in the altitude, it's a little better," Ryan O'Reilly, who played the first six seasons of his career in Colorado, said. "I thought we had two good skates - may not have been the cleanest ones, but still, we got moving and it's going to help out tonight."
Ryan O'Reilly will be going up against his old club for the fourth time. He has four assists in those previous three matchups, including a helped in Buffalo's 2-0 win over the Avalanche on Feb. 16. Reinhart (who has two goals and an assist in three career games against the Avs) and Evander Kane (who now has 15 points in his last 14 games) scored in that game.
Robin Lehner, who will start in goal on Saturday, made 23 saves on that night. In 10 games over the month of February, Lehner has a .942 save percentage.