Game 5 Projected Lineup: Avalanche vs. Stars

The Colorado Avalanche takes on the Dallas Stars in Game 5 of their second round Stanley Cup Playoff series tonight at Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta.
Avs head coach Jared Bednar did not say what his lineup will look like for the outing in his pregame availability. The Stars lead the best-of-seven series 3-1 after Colorado fell 5-4 in Game 4 on Sunday.

Tonight's contest is the second half of a back-to-back set, the second time the Avalanche is playing on consecutive days this postseason. It marks the first time since the franchise moved to Denver that it will play multiple back-to-backs in the same playoff year.
Colorado's first back-to-back this postseason came in Games 2-3 in the first round against the Arizona Coyotes, and the Avs won the first outing and dropped the second.
Goaltender Pavel Francouz has played in each of the games in the series, starting the past three outings after entering midway through Game 1 when Philipp Grubauer was injured.
Forwards Matt Calvert and Joonas Donskoi, defenseman Erik Johnson and Grubauer all remain unfit to play.
Below is the Avalanche's projected lineup for tonight's contest based on the start of Sunday's Game 4. The forward combinations and defensive pairings are subject to change.
Forwards
92 Gabriel Landeskog - 29 Nathan MacKinnon - 96 Mikko Rantanen
95 Andre Burakovsky - 91 Nazem Kadri - 13 Valeri Nichushkin
17 Tyson Jost - 37 J.T. Compher - 90 Vladislav Namestnikov
83 Matt Nieto - 41 Pierre-Edouard Bellemare - 25 Logan O'Connor
Defensemen
27 Ryan Graves - 8 Cale Makar
49 Samuel Girard - 16 Nikita Zadorov
28 Ian Cole - 7 Kevin Connautono
Goaltenders
39 Pavel Francouz
35 Michael Hutchinson
Dallas is not expected to make any changes to its lineup for tonight's outing, as goaltender Ben Bishop and defenseman Stephen Johns both remain unfit to play.
It is the second back-to-back set the Stars are playing this postseason as well. They won the first contest but lost the second the first time they competed on consecutive days this playoffs, Game 2-3 against the Calgary Flames in Round 1.
Below is Dallas' projected lineup based on the forward combinations and defensive pairings in Game 4. It is subject to change.
Forwards
14 Jamie Benn - 91 Tyler Seguin - 47 Alexander Radulov
13 Mattias Janmark - 16 Joe Pavelski - 34 Denis Gurianov
18 Jason Dickinson - 24 Roope Hintz - 10 Corey Perry
11 Andrew Cogliano - 12 Radek Faksa - 15 Blake Comeau
Defensemen
23 Esa Lindell - 3 John Klingberg
2 Jamie Oleksiak - 4 Miro Heiskanen
5 Andrej Sekera - 42 Taylor Fedun
Goaltenders
35 Anton Khudobin
29 Jake Oettinger