Avalanche lines and D pairs against Senators tonight

A rare Monday night game at Ball Arena tonight, with the Ottawa Senators in town. Let’s get to the lines and D pairs for Colorado:

Landeskog–Rantanen-O’Connor

Nichushkin-Kadri-Burakovsky

Jost-Newhook-Aubel

Helm-Megna-Sherwood

D

Toews-Makar

Girard-Murray

J. Johnson-E. Johnson

Kuemper in net, Johansson backup.

For the Senators, Filip Gustavsson will start in goal. The team is coached by former Av D.J. Smith. Ottawa has not won a game in Denver since Nov. 10, 2017. … Let’s see how Newhook does on the top line tonight. That, for me, will be a big focal point.

*earlier version had Newhook at 1C but coach reverted back to previous lines

(Terry Frei contributed to this report)