The Boston Bruins will make a few lineup changes for Saturday’s road game against the Arizona Coyotes.
Forward Seth Griffith and defenseman Joe Morrow will enter the lineup, with forward David Pastrnak and defenseman Matt Bartkowski expected to be scratches, B’s head coach Claude Julien told reporters.
Griffith’s five goals are the second-most on a Bruins team that badly needs offense. The Bruins did score four goals against the San Jose Sharks on Thursday night, but they also gave up seven goals in one of their worst losses of the season.
The challenge will be a little easier against the Coyotes, who rank 24th in goals scored, 25th in goals against average and have a six-game losing streak on home ice.
Arizona will start Devan Dubnyk in goal, the team announced Saturday. He’s 5-1-1 with a .925 save percentage and a 2.43 goals against average this season.
Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask started Thursday’s game and gave up a career-high seven goals. To be fair, he actually played pretty well and four of those goals were deflections. Boston doesn’t play against until Thursday against the Chicago Blackhawks, so it makes sense to give Rask the start Saturday night.
Here are the projected lineups for both teams:
BOSTON BRUINS (14-12-1, 5th in Atlantic)
Brad Marchand-Patrice Bergeron-Reilly Smith
Milan Lucic-Carl Soderberg-Loui Eriksson
Seth Griffith-Chris Kelly-Matt Fraser
Daniel Paille-Gregory Campbell-Simon Gagne
Dennis Seidenberg-Dougie Hamilton
Torey Krug-Zach Trotman
Joe Morrow-Kevan Miller
Tuukka Rask
ARIZONA COYOTES (10-14-3, 6th in Pacific)
Tobias Rieder-Antoine Vermette-Mikkel Boedker
Lauri Lorpikoski-Sam Gagner-Shane Doan
Brandon McMillan-Martin Hanzal-Martin Erat
Jordan Martinook-Joe Vitale-B.J. Crombeen
Oliver Ekman-Larsson-Zbynek Michalek
Keith Yandle-Michael Stone
Andrew Campbell-Connor Murphy
Devan Dubnyk
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