Colorado Avalanche's Official Projected Lineups For Game One Against Dallas Stars
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The Colorado Avalanche are gearing up for their first game of the playoffs tonight, and they projected lineup has officially been revealed, with a couple of surprises in there.
Everyone knows that the Dallas Stars are facing some adversary right now, especially being without their best defenseman in Miro Heiskanen, who skated today, but is expected to miss the first game of the series.
The #Stars will be without their star defenseman for Game 1 - but are "hopeful" that he'll be back in the series.
Just in their last regular season game as well, the Dallas Stars got some more unfortunate news as it was revealed that their top scorer in Jason Roberston was also injured.
Many other teams opted to rest their top players, but the Stars decided to play theirs in a meaning less game, and he got injured becuase of it.
He was seen leaving the arena in a knee brace, and afterwards it was reported that he is labeled as week-to-week and could miss the first round.
Stars forward Jason Robertson (lower body) will not return to the game.
Jason Robertson (lower body) is week-to-week, per Pete DeBoer.
He won't be playing in Game 1.
He won't be playing in Game 1.
Colorado Avalanche Projected Lineups
By the looks of the Avalanche's recent practice lineups, it looks like the Colorado Avalanche are going to be healthy scratching five players including, Gabriel Landesko, Miles Wood, Vesey, Middleton, and Malinski.
Here are their projected lineups:
#Avs lines per sweater color
Lehkonen - MacKinnon - Nečas
Drouin - Nelson - Nichushkin
Kiviranta - Coyle - Colton
Kelly - Drury- O'Connor
Landeskog - Wood - Vesey
Toews - Makar
Girard- Manson
Johnson- Lindgren
Middleton Malinski
Blackwood
Wedgewood
Lehkonen - MacKinnon - Nečas
Drouin - Nelson - Nichushkin
Kiviranta - Coyle - Colton
Kelly - Drury- O'Connor
Landeskog - Wood - Vesey
Toews - Makar
Girard- Manson
Johnson- Lindgren
Middleton Malinski
Blackwood
Wedgewood
The Avalanche definitely have the upper hand with the injuries the Stars are dealing with, but anything can happen during the playoffs.
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