SAN JOSE -- The Sharks and Colorado Avalanche are knotted at two games apiece in their Stanley Cup playoff second-round series. But Team Teal has a chance to pull back ahead of the competition Saturday night as the series returns to the South Bay for Game 5.
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Forward Joonas Donskoi is a game-time decision for San Jose after missing the last five playoff games with an unspecified injury. If he returns to the lineup, he possibly will slot back onto Tomas Hertl's wing opposite of Evander Kane.
Sharks captain Joe Pavelski remains out of the lineup as he recovers from an injury he sustained in Game 7 against the Vegas Golden Knights.
Heading into Saturday's game, San Jose is 17-18 in Game 5 situations and 11-6 during that span when playing at the Tank.
Here are the projected lines and defensive pairings for both teams.
Sharks projected lines and pairs
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Timo Meier -- Logan Couture -- Gustav Nyquist
Evander Kane -- Tomas Hertl -- Joonas Donskoi
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
Aaron Dell
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
