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:

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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

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Joonas Korpisalo

SAN JOSE SHARKS (18-42-9)

Collin Graf — Macklin Celebrini — Will SmithWilliam Eklund — Alexander Wennberg — Tyler ToffoliNikolai Kovalenko — Patrick Giles — Ty Dellandrea

Carl Grundstrom — Zack Ostapchuk — Barclay Goodrow

Mario Ferraro — Shakir MukhamadullinLuca Cagnoni — Vincent Desharnais

Lucas Carlsson — Timothy Liljegren

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Alexander Georgiev

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