Nazem Kadri and Matt Calvert won’t play Saturday when the Avalanche face Boston to close out their three-game road trip.
Kadri will miss his second game in a row because of a lower-body injury and Calvert, who played the past two games after missing six with a concussion, is on a personal leave.
Vladislav Kamenev, who missed the first two games of the trip because of illness, will be on the fourth line with Tyson Jost and T.J. Tynan.
Philipp Grubauer will start in goal. He’s won his past three starts with a 1.67 goals-against average and .943 save percentage.
The Avalanche have won five games in a row and are 10-3-0 in the past 13 games. The Bruins are 9-0-4 in their past 13.
The projected lineup:
FORWARDS Joonas Donskoi – Nathan MacKinnon -- Mikko Rantanen Gabriel Landeskog -- J.T. Compher -- Andre Burakovsky Matt Nieto -- Pierre-Edouard Bellemare -- Valeri Nichushkin Vladislav Kamenev -- Tyson Jost -- T.J. Tynan
DEFENSE Ryan Graves -- Cale Makar Nikita Zadorov -- Samuel Girard Mark Barberio -- Ian Cole
GOALIES Philipp Grubauer Pavel Francouz