-- Tomas Holmstrom has a sore knee and won't play Thursday against Edmonton. Holmstrom didn't skate or workout for the past two days to rest his knee. The injury happened during Sunday's game against Carolina and he played with some pain Monday in Nashville.
With Holmstrom not on the ice, these were Wednesday's practice lines ...
Datsyuk-Zetterberg-Samuelsson
Hudler-Filppula-Kopecky
Cleary-Franzen-Drake
Draper-Ellis-Downey
Coach Mike Babcock wouldn't say if he was going to keep Samuelsson on the top line or not tomorrow.
-- Mark Hartigan will be called up. Although Draper practiced on the fourth line (his knee allowed him to do all of the drills), he won't be back in the lineup until after Christmas.
-- Dominik Hasek gets the start tomorrow ... his fourth start in the past five games. Chris Osgood will start Saturday's game against Florida.
-- Kirk Maltby (back) didn't practice again. He saw a specialist Tuesday and was cleared of any significant injury. Maltby was given an epidural to ease the inflammation.