Higgins gone for 6 weeks

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news;_ylt=Ak3C3UTDMekYBouvDriHY9x7vLYF?slug=ap-canadiens-higgins&prov=ap&type=lgns

After hurting leaving the ice when hurting his ankle in the game against the devils on saturday, chris higgins came back to the game still in "a lot of pain" and played and his ankle. Unfortunatly for higgins, he was unaware of how badly he injured his ankle, and going back to play only made it worse. chris partially tore a ligament in his ankle. this means he will be out of the lineup for a minimum of 6 weeks (originially 4, but now said to be 6). higgins leads the habs with 8 goals and 3 shorthanded goals. he is the canadians best young sniper and the canadians suffer a great loss without chris. guillaume latendresse will replace higgins on the ryder-koivu-higgins line.

i tihnk this is very bad for the canadiens. they had a great start to the season along with chris higgins having a fantastic start, hopefully higgins playing well wasnt what got the habs going. i have not been veyr impressed with how latendresse has been playing, he seems to be extremly nervous, hopefully playing on the top line will give him the boost he needs. after watching the oilers habs game last night with latendresse on the first line, latendresse scored an ugly first NHL goal, but did play decent, but was shaky in the shootout as he fanned on the backhand. i think the fans are putting too much pressure on him by chanting GUI and compaying him to guy lafleur all the time.