Projected Lineups for Lightning vs Avalanche – 11/04/25 - The Hockey Writers - Projected Lineups

The Tampa Bay Lightning take on the Colorado Avalanche at Ball Arena tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

LIGHTNING (6-4-2) at AVALANCHE (7-1-5)

9:30 p.m. ET; HBO MAX, truTV, TNT, ALT, SN1

Lightning projected lineup

Brandon Hagel — Brayden Point — Nikita Kucherov
Jake Guentzel — Anthony Cirelli — Curtis Douglas
Oliver Bjorkstrand — Dominic James — Gage Goncalves
Zemgus Girgensons — Yanni Gourde — Pontus Holmberg

Victor Hedman — J.J. Moser
Ryan McDonagh — Erik Cernak
Emil Lilleberg — Max Crozier

Andrei Vasilevskiy
Jonas Johansson

Scratched: Jack Finley, Darren Raddysh, Charle-Edouard D’Astous

Injured: Nick Paul (upper body)

Status report

Crozier will return to the lineup after missing the past eight games with a lower-body injury. Coach Jon Cooper didn’t say who would come out of the lineup. … Paul, a forward, traveled with the Lightning but will not play during the road trip.

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Avalanche projected lineup

Artturi Lehkonen — Nathan MacKinnon — Martin Necas
Ross Colton — Brock Nelson — Valeri Nichushkin
Gabriel Landeskog — Jack Drury — Victor Olofsson
Parker Kelly — Zakhar Bardakov — Tristen Nielsen

Devon Toews — Cale Makar
Josh Manson — Brent Burns
Jack Ahcan — Sam Malinski

Scott Wedgewood
Mackenzie Blackwood

Scratched: Ilya Solovyov

Injured: Samuel Girard (upper body), Gavin Brindley (concussion), Logan O’Connor (hip surgery), Joel Kiviranta (lower body)

Status report

Colorado held an optional morning skate. … Nielsen, who was recalled from Colorado of the American Hockey League on Monday, will make his NHL debut.