Projected Lineups for Avalanche vs Kings – 4/12/25

The Colorado Avalanche take on the Los Angeles Kings today. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

AVALANCHE (48-28-4) at KINGS (45-24-9)

4 p.m. ET; FDSNW, ALT

Avalanche projected lineup

Miles Wood — Brock Nelson — Valeri Nichushkin
Joel Kiviranta — Charlie Coyle — Martin Necas
Parker Kelly– Jack Drury — Logan O’Connor
Artturi Lehkonen — Chris Wagner — Jimmy Vesey

Devon Toews — Wyatt Aamodt
Samuel Girard — Sam Malinski
Keaton Middleton — Erik Johnson

Mackenzie Blackwood
Scott Wedgewood

Scratched: Cale Makar, Jere Innala, Jack Ahcan

Injured: Nathan MacKinnon (undisclosed), Ryan Lindgren (upper body), Ross Colton (upper body), Jonathan Drouin (lower body), Josh Manson (upper body), Gabriel Landeskog (knee), Tucker Poolman (head)

Status report:

Makar will be a healthy scratch for the final two games of the regular season to rest; the defenseman did not travel with the Avalanche for its two-game road trip; forwards MacKinnon, Drouin and Colton and defensemen Manson and Lindgren also are not with the team. … Aamodt, Innala, a forward, and Ahcan, a defenseman, each was recalled from Colorado of the American Hockey League on Friday. … Landeskog, a forward who has not played since the 2022 Stanley Cup Final, has been loaned to Colorado of the AHL for a conditioning assignment; he had cartilage transplant surgery in his right knee May 10, 2023, and has been on long-term injured reserve.

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Kings projected lineup

Andrei Kuzmenko — Anze Kopitar — Adrian Kempe
Warren Foegele — Phillip Danault — Trevor Moore
Kevin Fiala — Quinton Byfield — Alex Laferriere
Jeff Malott — Samuel Helenius — Trevor Lewis

Mikey Anderson — Brandt Clarke
Vladislav Gavrikov — Jordan Spence
Jacob Moverare — Kyle Burroughs

Darcy Kuemper
David Rittich

Scratched: Akil Thomas

Injured: Drew Doughty (ankle), Joel Edmundson (upper body), Tanner Jeannot (undisclosed), Alex Turcotte (upper body)

Status Report:

Turcotte, a forward, could return after missing the past nine games. … Doughty practiced Friday but the defenseman is likely to miss his third straight game.

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