The San Jose Sharks can expand on their 2-1 series lead over the Colorado Avalanche on Thursday evening as the teams meet back up at Pepsi Center for Game 4 of their best-of-seven series in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Avalanche head coach Jared Bednar told the media Thursday morning there is a chance forward Matt Calvert will rejoin Colorado’s lineup for Game 4, although he hasn’t been given the definite go-ahead to play. Calvert missed Game 3 with an upper-body injury after taking a late-game hip check from Brent Burns earlier in the series.
The Sharks are expected to roll out the same lineup as they did in their 4-2 victory over the Avs on Tuesday evening. In that game, Logan Couture tallied the sixth hat trick in Sharks playoff history and Martin Jones turned away 25 of 27 shots that came his way.
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The Sharks are 10-1 all-time when taking a 3-1 playoff series lead, and 6-11 all-time after a series gets tied at two games apiece.
Sharks projected lines and pairs
Timo Meier – Logan Couture – Gustav Nyquist
Evander Kane – Tomas Hertl – Lukas Radil
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
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Avalanche projected lines and pairs
Gabriel Landeskog – Nathan MacKinnon – Alexander Kerfoot
Colin Wilson – Carl Soderberg – Mikko Rantanen
Derick Brassard – JT Compher – Matt Nieto
Sven Andrighetto – Tyson Jost –– Gabriel Bourque
Ian Cole – Erik Johnson
Sam Girard – Cale Makar
Nikita Zadorov – Tyson Barrie
Philipp Grubauer – projected starter
Semyon Varlamov