COLORADO’S YOUNGEST PLAYER MISSES FRIDAY NIGHT’S GAME

The Avalanche’s youngest player, 19-year-old center Tyson Jost, missed Friday night’s game against the Anaheim Ducks with a bone bruise.

Jost injured his left knee in the second period of Wednesday’s 6-3 win over the Boston Bruins — and returned in the third period and scored Colorado’s sixth goal in an empty-net situation.

Jost didn’t practice Thursday and coach Jared Bednar said he is day-to-day.

Bednar suspects Jost won’t play Saturday night at Dallas but will return to the lineup Tuesday at Nashville. The Avs will have Sunday off before practicing Monday in Music City.

“We’ll get him back on the ice Monday to test it and participate in practice and try to get ready for Tuesday,” Bednar said after Friday’s morning skate at the Pepsi Center.

Matt Nieto replaced Jost in the 12-man forward corps, but Colin Wilson moved up from the fourth line to replace Jost on the line with Gabe Landeskog and J.T. Compher. Nieto hasn’t played since opening night.

Lineup. Colorado’s top two lines remained the same: Nathan MacKinnon centered Sven Andrighetto and Mikko Rantanen, and Matt Duchene was between Nail Yakupov and Alex Kerfoot. The Avs again made rookie defensemen Anton Lindholm and Andrei Mironov healthy scratches, using the same defensive pairings as Wednesday.

Evacuation. Ducks defenseman Francois Beauchemin and his family were evacuated from their Anaheim-area home Monday because of the wildfires in Southern California. Beauchemin, who played the last two seasons for the Avalanche before being bought out by the team in June, is one of many Ducks players/staff who spent a part of their season-opening, four-game homestand in hotels.

Footnotes. Anaheim forward Andrew Cogliano appeared in his 791st consecutive game Fri- day, the longest ironman streak since Steve Larmer played in 884 consecutive ending in 1993. … The Ducks had three former Avs in the lineup Friday in forward Chris Wagner, Beauchemin and backup goalie Reto Berra. … The Ducks entered Friday 0-of-15 on the power play. The Avs were only slightly better (2-of-17). … Colorado was last in the league in penalty killing at 66.7 percent (12-of-18). Anaheim was 18-of-22 on the penalty kill after going 3-of-4 against the Avs in the first period. … The Avs have allowed just two goals at 5-on-5. The seven other goals-against have come on special teams. — Mike Chambers,