GOLDEN KNIGHTS (9-4-6) at MAMMOTH (10-7-3)
9 p.m. ET; Utah16, SCRIPPS
Golden Knights projected lineup
Ivan Barbashev — Jack Eichel – Branden Bowman
Pavel Dorofeyev– Tomas Hertl — Mitch Marner
Brandon Saad — Brett Howden — Reilly Smith
Cole Reinhardt — Colton Sissons — Keegan Kolesar
Brayden McNabb — Shea Theodore
Noah Hanifin — Zach Whitecloud
Ben Hutton — Kaedan Korczak
Carl Lindbom
Akira Schmid
Scratched: Alexander Holtz
Injured: Adin Hill (lower body), William Karlsson (lower body), Jeremy Lauzon (undisclosed), Mark Stone (upper body)
Mammoth projected lineup
Clayton Keller — Barrett Hayton — Nick Schmaltz
Michael Carcone– Logan Cooley — Dylan Guenther
JJ Peterka — Jack McBain — Lawson Crouse
Liam O’Brien — Kevin Stenlund — Brandon Tanev
Mikhail Sergachev — Dmitri Simashev
Nate Schmidt — John Marino
Ian Cole — Nick DeSimone
Karel Vejmelka
Vitek Vanecek
Scratched: Olli Maatta, Kailer Yamamoto, Kevin Rooney
Injured: Sean Durzi (upper body), Alex Kerfoot (lower body)
Status report
The Golden Knights are expected to dress the same 18 skaters they used in a 3-2 win against the New York Rangers on Tuesday. … Vegas assigned forward Tanner Laczynski to Henderson of the American Hockey League on Wednesday. … Durzi is day to day and “close” after skating with the Mammoth in a regular jersey Thursday, coach Andre Tourigny said; the defenseman has not played since Oct. 11. … O’Brien returns to the lineup, replacing Yamamoto, a forward. … Simashev also returns to the lineup, replacing Maatta, a defenseman.
