Check back each day to get the projected lineups, starting goalies, injury news, and roster updates for every game. On weekends, the lineups will be published prior to matinée games.
Sources: NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents and others.
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Avalanche projected lineup
Artturi Lehkonen — Nathan MacKinnon — Martin Necas
Ross Colton — Brock Nelson — Valeri Nichushkin
Gabriel Landeskog — Jack Drury — Victor Olofsson
Parker Kelly — Zakhar Bardakov — Gavin Brindley
Devon Toews — Cale Makar
Josh Manson — Brent Burns
Ilya Solovyovn — Sam Malinski
Scott Wedgewood
Mackenzie Blackwood
Scratched: Jack Ahcan, Trent Miner
Injured: Samuel Girard (upper body), Joel Kiviranta (lower body), Logan O’Connor (hip surgery)
Status report
Girard, a defenseman, and O’Connor, a forward, are each on Colorado’s two-game road trip, but neither will play Friday. Blackwood could start for the first time this season either Friday or at the San Jose Sharks on Saturday.
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Golden Knights projected lineup
Ivan Barbashev — Jack Eichel — Alexander Holtz
Brandon Saad — William Karlsson — Reilly Smith
Pavel Dorofeyev — Tomas Hertl — Mitch Marner
Cole Reinhardt — Brett Howden — Keegan Kolesar
Brayden McNabb — Shea Theodore
Ben Hutton — Zach Whitecloud
Jeremy Lauzon — Kaedan Korczak
Akira Schmid
Carl Lindblom
Scratched: None
Injured: Noah Hanifin (undisclosed), Adin Hill (lower body), Colton Sissons (undisclosed), Mark Stone (upper body)
Status report
Holtz moves to the top line along Eichel and Barbashev, and Saad moves to Karlsson’s left wing on the second line. Sissons, a forward, will miss his second straight game. … Hanifin is skating, but the defensmean will miss his 10th consecutive game. … The Golden Knights reassigned defenseman Jaycob Megna to Henderson of the American Hockey League on Wednesday.
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Islanders projected lineup
Anthony Duclair — Mathew Barzal — Kyle Palmieri
Jonathan Drouin — Bo Horvat — Emil Heineman
Anders Lee — Jean-Gabriel Pageau — Simon Holmstrom
Kyle MacLean — Casey Cizikas — Maxim Tsyplakov
Adam Pelech — Ryan Pulock
Matthew Schaefer — Scott Mayfield
Alexander Romanov –Tony DeAngelo
Ilya Sorokin
David Rittich
Scratched: Adam Boqvist, Calum Ritchie
Injured: Maxim Shabanov (upper body), Semyon Varlamov (knee surgery), Ethan Bear (upper body)
Status report
The Islanders did not hold a morning skate Friday following a 6-2 loss at the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday. … Barzal is expected to return; he was a healthy scratch Thursday for disciplinary reasons after arriving late for the team’s morning skate that day. … New York recalled Ritchie, a center, from Bridgeport of the American Hockey League on Friday, and loaned defenseman Marshall Warren to Bridgeport.
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Capitals projected lineup
Alex Ovechkin — Connor McMichael — Ryan Leonard
Aliaksei Protas — Pierre-Luc Dubois — Tom Wilson
Anthony Beauvillier — Hendrix Lapierre — Justin Sourdif
Brandon Duhaime — Nic Dowd — Sonny Milano
Martin Fehervary — John Carlson
Jakob Chychrun — Matt Roy
Declan Chisholm — Trevor van Riemsdyk
Logan Thompson
Charlie Lindgren
Scratched: Dylan McIlrath
Injured: Rasmus Sandin (upper body), Dylan Strome (lower body), Ethen Frank (upper body)
Status report
Strome could return; the center skated in a regular jersey Friday after missing a 1-0 loss at the Dallas Stars on Tuesday. … Frank, a forward who left in the third period Tuesday, was placed on injured reserve.
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