Coyotes at Avalanche

COYOTES (19-18-5) at AVALANCHE (28-9-4)

Coyotes projected lineup
Clayton Keller -- Johan Larsson -- Phil Kessel
Lawson Crouse -- Christian Dvorak -- Christian Fischer
Michael Bunting -- Nick Schmaltz -- Conor Garland
Dryden Hunt -- Derick Brassard -- Tyler Pitlick
Jakob Chychrun -- Alex Goligoski
Oliver Ekman-Larsson -- Ilya Lyubushkin
Jordan Oesterle -- Jason Demers
Ivan Prosvetov
Adin Hill
Scratched:John Hayden, Lane Pederson
Injured:Jordan Gross (lower body), Niklas Hjalmarsson (upper body), Darcy Kuemper (lower body), Antti Raanta (lower body)
Avalanche projected lineup
Gabriel Landeskog -- Nathan MacKinnon -- Mikko Rantanen
Valeri Nichushkin -- Nazem Kadri -- Andre Burakovsky
Brandon Saad -- Tyson Jost -- Joonas Donskoi
J.T. Compher -- Pierre-Edouard Bellemare -- Liam O'Brien
Devon Toews -- Samuel Girard
Ryan Graves -- Cale Makar
Jacob MacDonald -- Kyle Burroughs
Philipp Grubauer
Devan Dubnyk
Scratched:Jonas Johansson, Carl Soderberg
Injured:Matt Calvert (upper body),Pavel Francouz (lower body), Erik Johnson (upper body), Patrik Nemeth (upper body), Logan O'Connor (upper body)
COVID-19 protocol:Bowen Byram
Status report
Neither team had a morning skate after each played Sunday. … Prosvetov will make his first NHL start. His previous two NHL games were in relief. ... Pederson, a forward, was recalled from the taxi squad. The Coyotes assigned forward
Hudson Fasching
to the taxi squad. ... Soderberg, a forward, was acquired in a trade with the Chicago Blackhawks for minor-league forward
Josh Dickinson
and forward prospect
Ryder Rolston
. ... MacDonald is eligible to return after serving a two-game suspension from the NHL Department of Player Safety for an illegal check to the head against Minnesota Wild forward Ryan Hartman on April 7.