Projected Lines: CGY vs COL

Projected Lines

Calgary Flames versus Colorado Avalanche

Scotiabank Saddledome

Calgary, Alberta

The Flames are back home after wrapping their five-game road trip on Monday in Nashville with a regulation loss. All told, it was their only regulation loss on the trip and they’ll try to keep turning the corner tonight in familiar quarters as the defending Stanley Cup Champions come to town.

We start our projections in the crease, where we won’t see any change from Monday.

Per Pat Steinberg of Sportsnet 960:

A lack of run support sank Markstrom against the Predators, so he’ll get another crack at it tonight after stopping 27 of 29 shots on Monday. He’ll now go back-to-back after Dan Vladar did it for a pair on the 10th & 12th. Markstrom carries an .894 Save Percentage matched with a 2.81 Goals Against Average so far this year. He has a 13-11-5 record overall.

In other recent roster news, Dennis Gilbert and Radim Zohorna were sent back down to the AHL as of December 29th, but Zohorna was recalled one day later on December 30th. Other Wranglers making the trip down the hallway are Walker Duehr and Jakob Pelletier who were recalled on January 7th. With Zohorna heading back down the other way as of January 13th, this leaves the active roster at 22 for the time being.

With no changes in the crease, we also expect no changes to forward lines or defensive pairings.

Lineup Looks:

Projections:

Barring any major changes when lineups are submitted, they are projected as follows:

FORWARD 1: Dube-Lindholm-Toffoli

FORWARD 2: Lucic-Kadri-Huberdeau

FORWARD 3: Mangiapane-Backlund-Coleman

FORWARD 4: Lewis-Ruzicka-Duehr

D1: Hanifin-Andersson

D2: Tanev-Weegar

D3: Zadorov-Stone

GOALTENDERS: Markstrom (starter), Vladar (backup)

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