Avalanche goalie Philipp Grubauer Is Going to Probably Be back in net Thursday from the San Jose Sharks at the Pepsi Center.
Grubauer has gone 2-5-2 in his past nine starts and has a 2.92 goals-against typical and .909 save percentage over the year. He has appeared in 27 games, such as Tuesday if Colorado blew another lead and lost 3-2 in overtime to the Dallas Stars.
The Avs’ other alternative, Pavel Francouz, has appeared in 19 games and has a 2.41 GAA and .926 SP. Francouz is 0-2-1 in his past 3 starts.
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As a staff, the Avs have won only four of their past 14 games, losing three days beyond regulation during this stretch.
Observing an morning Thursday, Avs coach Jared Bednar stated he was happy with Grubauer played Tuesday and wants to reinforce this.
“I thought he felt hard, same as the rest of our staff,” Bednar stated. “He cried hard to locate pucks did a great job for us — gave us a chance. The difference for me personally when I look at it, is we didn’t capitalize on lots of our chances. We hit a few of times to the post in the phase. I thought if we had failures, keeping it from our net, he had been doing a good job, therefore we re planning to go back together with him and see whether he can get a win tonight to us. ”
Jared Bednar with this and this this morning … G Philipp Grubauer rear in net versus SJS #Avs pic.twitter.com/p3l1fLujuh
— Mike Chambers (@MikeChambers) January 16, 2020
Avalanche tentative lineup
Forwards
Landeskog-MacKinnon-Rantanen
Burakovsky-Kadri-Nichushkin
Calvert-Bellemare-Compher
Nieto-Jost-Kamenev
Defense
Graves-Makar
Girard-Johnson
Zadorov-Cole
Goal
Grubauer, Francouz
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