Morning skate notebook: Yak is back

Greetings from the media room of the Pepsi Center, where the Avalanche will host the white-hot Tampa Bay Lightning at 7 p.m. I’m hearing it’ll be a good crowd tonight, so plan ahead. The only lineup news is this: Nail Yakupov is back in, and Gabriel Bourque is back out. For Yak, it’ll be his first game since Dec. 5,…