Team Clinic: Habs are hurting big time

From The Gazette's Pat Hickey, at practice in Brossard:

• Carey Price did not practice today. He's not feeling well, and Hamilton's Marc Denis has been called up from Hamilton. This isn't to rule out Price in goal vs. Washington tomorrow. If Halak gets the call, it will be his third consecutive game.

• Saku Koivu will miss Saturday's game and probably Tuesday's in Carolina. He will see a doctor later today about what's suspected to be a foot injury suffered last night.

• Ben Maxwell has been recalled from the farm, and will play on a line with Andrei Kostitsyn and Matt D'Agostini, in Koivu's place.

• Christopher Higgins: still no word on whether he's seen a doctor, or how many times, but his arm has been in a sling for the past two days and he's expected to miss a week, at least.

• Georges Laraque did not practice, nursing a balky groin.

• Mathieu Dandenault will miss six to eight weeks. He had a triple fracture of his left forearm, and three hairline fractures.

• Mike Komisarek practised with the team.

Audio later in the day.