Bruins-Sharks Projected Lines, Pairings: Joonas Korpisalo Starts In Net

The Boston Bruins enter the California leg of their West Coast road trip Saturday night when they visit the San Jose Sharks at SAP Center.

Boston fell 5-1 to the Vegas Golden Knights at T-Mobile Arena Thursday night in the opening game of the trip. The Bruins won the only other meeting with San Jose this season in a 6-3 victory at TD Garden on Jan. 20.

The Bruins take the ice with Ian Mitchell scratched from the lineup.

Boston enters play Saturday five points behind the Montreal Canadiens for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. The Bruins have just 12 games remaining in the regular season.

Here are the projected lines for Saturday’s matchup between Boston and San Jose:

BOSTON BRUINS (30-31-9)
Morgan Geekie — Pavel Zacha — David Pastrnak
Cole Koepke — Casey Mittelstadt — Vinni Letteri
Marat Khusnutdinov — Elias Lindholm — Fabian Lysell
John Beecher — Patrick Brown — Jakub Lauko

Nikita Zadorov — Henri Jokiharju
Mason Lohrei — Andrew Peeke
Parker Wotherspoon — Michael Callahan

Joonas Korpisalo

SAN JOSE SHARKS (18-42-9)
Collin Graf — Macklin Celebrini — Will Smith
William Eklund — Alexander Wennberg — Tyler Toffoli
Nikolai Kovalenko — Patrick Giles — Ty Dellandrea
Carl Grundstrom — Zack Ostapchuk — Barclay Goodrow

Mario Ferraro — Shakir Mukhamadullin
Luca Cagnoni — Vincent Desharnais
Lucas Carlsson — Timothy Liljegren

Alexander Georgiev