Getting your player ready...
Patrick Roy at Tuesday’s practice
Semyon Varlamov is ill and not practicing this morning, and Patrick Roy — also preparing for Friday’s night’s Red Wings-Avalanche alumni game — is in one of the nets at Family Sports Center, with Calvin Pickard at the other end.
Nathan MacKinnon also isn’t practicing because of illness, but Joe Sakic isn’t out there replacing him.
Neither illness is serious. It probably makes a Pickard start against San Joe Wednesday night a possibility, but we’ll probably know more about that after practice.
Newly acquired Shawn Matthias has yet to join the team because of immigration/work red tape.
Terry Frei: tfrei@denverpost.com or @TFrei
