After wrapping up their most recent road trip, the Colorado Avalanche return home for a matchup against the Vegas Golden Knights. This will be the second of three games between these two teams, with Vegas winning the first by a final score of 8-4.

Colorado avalanche

After ending their most recent road trip on a sour note with an 8-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning, Colorado returns to Denver for a matchup against the Vegas Golden Knights. Despite the bad ending to their road trip, the Avs won three of their four road games and had a successful overall road trip.

On a bit of a negative note, this morning it was announced that Jonathan Drouin will be out week to week due to injury after scoring two goals against the Florida Panthers last weekend.

On a slightly more positive note, it looks like we’ll be getting another NHL debut for the Avs tonight, as Chase Bradley was recalled prior to tonight’s game, along with Ivan Ivan and Nikolai Kovalenko. Although you need guys to step up every night, and this game is no exception, especially with Drouin out of the lineup again.

Projected lineup

Artturi Lehkonen – Nathan MacKinnon – Mikko Rantanen
Valeri Nichushkin – Casey Mittelstadt – Ivan Ivan
Joel Kiviranta-Parker Kelly-Logan O’Connor
Miles Wood-Chase Bradley-Nicolai Kovalenko

Devon Toews-Cale Makar
Samuel Girard-Josh Manson
Calvin De Haan-Sam Malinski

Vegas Golden Knights

The Golden Knights come into this game coming off a 5-4 shootout victory against the Philadelphia Flyers. That victory came after they were three goals behind. While they were able to mount a comeback against the Flyers and ultimately win that game, call me crazy, but that’s not the way they should hope to win tonight’s game. Falling behind by multiple goals against a high-octane offense like Colorado’s is not the way to win a hockey game.

Projected lineup

Ivan Barbashev-Jack Eichel-Cal Burke
Tomas Hertl – Nicholas Roy – Keegan Kolesar
Tanner Pearson-Brett Howden-Pavel Dorofeyev
Mason Morelli-Cole Schwindt-Alexander Holtz

Brayden McNabb-Shea Theadore
Noah Hanafin-Nicolas Haag
Kaeden Korczak

Goalkeepers

To probably no one’s surprise, Alexandar Georgiev will be in net for the Avs here tonight, and likely against Adin Hill. After Colorado’s last outing against Tampa Bay, they will definitely need Georgiev to step up here tonight and help them to a win against Vegas.