The San Jose Sharks have the opportunity to close out their second-round playoff matchup on Monday night and punch their ticket into the Western Conference FinalS as they prep to do battle yet again with the Colorado Avalanche.
San Jose continues to be without Joe Pavelski in the lineup for Game 6, although the captain did travel with the team to Denver and took part in practice. Pavelski has been absent from the Sharks’ lineup since April 23 when a third-period injury took him out of Game 7 against the Vegas Golden Knights.
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SIGN UP HERE The Avs are expected to shake up their lines for Game 6 by adding Patrik Nemeth back into the lineup. Colorado is expected to dress 11 forwards and seven defensemen on Monday.
Sharks projected lines and pairs
Timo Meier – Logan Couture – Gustav Nyquist
Evander Kane – Tomas Hertl – Joonas Donskoi
Marcus Sorensen – Joe Thornton – Kevin Labanc
Micheal Haley – Barclay Goodrow – Melker Karlsson
Marc-Edouard Vlasic – Brent Burns
Brenden Dillon – Erik Karlsson
Joakim Ryan – Justin Braun
Martin Jones – projected starter
Aaron Dell
Avalanche projected lines and pairs
San Jose Sharks
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Gabriel Landeskog – Nathan MacKinnon – Mikko Rantanen
Colin Wilson – Carl Soderberg Tyson Jost – Alexander Kerfoot
Carl Soderberg– JT Compher – Matt Nieto
Sven Andrighetto and/or Gabriel Bourque and/or Derick Brassard
Ian Cole – Erik Johnson
Sam Girard – Cale Makar
Nikita Zadorov – Tyson Barrie
Patrik Nemeth
Philipp Grubauer – projected starter
Semyon Varlamov