TROY — After opening their regular-season schedule with two games and using the same lineup in each, the Albany Devils hit their first three-in-three this weekend.

The Devils play at home Friday night (Binghamton, 7 p.m.) and Saturday (Utica, 5 p.m.) before hitting the road Sunday (Providence, 3:05 p.m.).

Albany coach Rick Kowalsky hopes to use the opportunity to get some of the players who didn’t play over the weekend to get some game experience. The Devils are carrying three extra forwards, one extra defenseman and one extra goaltender.

“That’s the plan,” Kowalsky said after practice Wednesday. “You take it day by day. We had a good weekend last weekend (two victories), so I’m going to have a conversation with Tom (Fitzgerald, Albany’s general manager) and have a look at it. We’d like to try and get, if we can, these guys some games and see them and evaluate them with our in-season experience.”

One player who definitely will get an opportunity is forward Brian Gibbons, who missed the past two games because of the birth of his first child. Also waiting to play their first games this season are forwards Brian Baddock and Jan Mandat, and defenseman Josh Jacobs. Goaltenders Ken Appleby and Mackenzie Blackwood have yet to see game action, although each dressed for one weekend game as Scott Wedgewood’s backup.

“We’re working through it this week,” Kowalsky said of the goaltending situation. “We’ll see what happens. We really don’t want to give an indication that it’s set in stone what we’re doing.

“They’ve made our decision hard, which is what we want here and what they want in New Jersey, we want throughout the organization. We talk about healthy competition all the time, it’s no different there. Scott came in and did a great job over the weekend, but we certainly are going to have to start looking at getting these guys games, whether it’s here or potentially in (ECHL) Glens Falls.”