The Avalanche open a three-game road trip Friday, taking on the Carolina Hurricanes.
They’ll play Nashville on Saturday and Detroit on Monday.
Pavel Francouz will make his sixth consecutive start. It’s possible Michael Hutchinson will make his Avalanche debut Saturday.
Francouz has gone 4-0-1 in his past five starts with a 1.56 goals-against average and .941 save percentage.
Coach Jared Bednar turned 48 Friday.
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Andre Burakovsky, who missed the past two games with illness/upper body injury, is on the trip. He’s listed as day-to-day.
The Avalanche have won six road games in a row, one shy of the franchise record set Jan. 10-Feb. 7, 1999.
The projected lineup:
FORWARDS Gabriel Landeskog -- Nathan MacKinnon -- Valeri Nichushkin Tyson Jost -- J.T. Compher -- Joonas Donskoi Vladislav Namestnikov -- Pierre-Edouard Bellemare -- Martin Kaut Matt Nieto -- Vladislav Kamenev -- Logan O’Connor
DEFENSE Ryan Graves -- Cale Makar Samuel Girard -- Erik Johnson Nikita Zadorov -- Ian Cole
GOALIES Pavel Francouz Michael Hutchinson