Injuries

Garth Murray, having played his first game of the season on Tuesday, is now out indefinitely, having suffered a fractured right ankle during that contest against the Florida Panthers. Murray was struck by a shot during the game from Habs defenceman Andrei Markov but returned to action and played a total of 12:46. An X-ray yesterday revealed the fracture.

Well, almost. At 9:50 a.m., defenceman Patrice Brisebois is taking shots and skating on Bell Centre ice with the Canadiens strength and conditioning coordinator, Scott Livingston. Brisebois has not yet been in uniform this exhibition season, sidelined by a groin injury.

Well, almost. At 9:50 a.m., defenceman Patrice Brisebois is taking shots and skating on Bell Centre ice with the Canadiens strength and conditioning coordinator, Scott Livingston. Brisebois has not yet been in uniform this exhibition season, sidelined by a groin injury.

Canadiens defenceman Andrew Archer has a broken cheekbone and will be out indefinitely, essentially ending his training camp with the Habs. He suffered the injury in a fight with Penguins tough guy Georges Laraque on Monday night.

Chris Higgins did little to change his physical game in the latter stages of the 2006-07 season, despite playing with a broken clavicle. Here he bulls through the crease of Buffalo Sabres goalie Ty Conklin at the Bell Centre on March 31.
Allen McInnis, Gazette

As if the ankle injury wasn't enough for Chris Higgins, the flashy Canadiens forward who missed 18 games last season with what later was described by Graham Rynbend, the team's head athletic therapist, as “multi-dimensional ... bruising, irritated tendons and an irritated ligament – a strain, sprain and a bruise all together.”

On Feb. 20, Higgins left the Canadiens-Capitals game with the time-honoured "upper-body injury," missing the club's next contest two nights later with something more precisely defined as a bruised shoulder. Yes, it was that. But it was also a broken clavicle – a fracture of the right collarbone – and it was a terribly painful injury with which Higgins played the final 17 games of the 2006-07 season.