Projected Lineup: Avalanche at Ducks

The Colorado Avalanche begins a three-game road trip through the Pacific Division this evening at the Anaheim Ducks.
It's the first outing of a busy week for the Avs, as they'll play at the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday and the Arizona Coyotes on Friday before returning home for a contest on Saturday against the Dallas Stars.

Avalanche head coach Jared Bednar said following Saturday's practice that Philipp Grubauer will start in goal versus Anaheim. It will be the goaltender's second consecutive start and seventh of the season.
Colorado did not hold a morning skate on Sunday in Anaheim, so the team's exact lineup for the 6 p.m. MT game at Honda Center won't be known until closer to puck drop.
Below is the Avalanche's projected lineup based on the team's last contest against the Washington Capitals on Friday. All forward combinations and defensive pairings are subject to change.

Forwards

92 Gabriel Landeskog - 29 Nathan MacKinnon - 96 Mikko Rantanen
17 Tyson Jost - 13 Alexander Kerfoot - 22 Colin Wilson
15 Sheldon Dries - 34 Carl Soderberg - 11 Matt Calvert
10 Sven Andrighetto - 91 Vladislav Kamenev - 57 Gabriel Bourque

Defensemen

49 Samuel Girard - 6 Erik Johnson
28 Ian Cole - 4 Tyson Barrie
12 Patrik Nemeth - 44 Mark Barberio

Goaltenders

31 Philipp Grubauer
1 Semyon Varlamov
Scratches: 16 Nikita Zadorov, 56 Marko Dano
Injury Report: 37 J.T. Compher (head), 83 Matt Nieto (lower body)