Maybe the Avalanche can provide some offense for Philipp Grubauer on Tuesday when the Avalanche take on the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden in the final game of the three-game road trip.
GAME NOTES
That wasn’t the case for
Pavel Francouz on Monday. He stopped 32 of 33 shots against the New York Islanders, but former Colorado goalie
Semyon Varlamov stopped all 32 he faced in their 1-0 win.
Grubauer has played well against the Rangers in his career, posting a 4-2-1 record with a shutout, 1.64 goals-against average and .948 save percentage.
Nathan MacKinnon will play his 500th NHL game.
The Avalanche are 3-3-1 when playing the second game of a back-to-back set.
Igor Shesterkin will be in goal for the Rangers, making his NHL debut after being recalled from Hartford of the AHL. He went 15-4-3 with the Wolf Pack with three shutouts, a 1.93 goals-against average and .932 save percentage.
Shesterkin went 79-9-4, 1.49, .940 his past three seasons in the Kontinental Hockey League.
Avalanche defenseman
Cale Makar is a Last Men In candidate to join MacKinnon on the Central Division team for the 2020 NHL All-Star Game. He’s second among NHL rookies in scoring with 32 points (nine goals, 23 assists) in 35 games.
Voting ends Friday at 9:59 p.m. MT.
Fans can vote at NHL.com/Vote or on a mobile interactive ballot on the NHL app.
The probable lineup:
FORWARDS
Gabriel Landeskog -- Nathan MacKinnon -- Joonas Donskoi
Valeri Nichushkin -- Nazem Kadri – Matt Calvert
Matt Nieto -- J.T. Compher -- Mikko Rantanen
Tyson Jost -- Pierre-Edouard Bellemare -- Andre Burakovsky
DEFENSE
Ryan Graves -- Cale Makar
Samuel Girard -- Erik Johnson
Nikita Zadorov -- Ian Cole
GOALIES
Philipp Grubauer
Pavel Francouz
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