By JIMMY GOLEN
AP Sports Writer

BOSTON(AP) -- Boston Bruins center David Krejci will stay away
from the team for the next 3-5 days while he is quarantined with
the swine flu.

General manager Peter Chiarelli said Thursday that the team's
medical staff confirmed a diagnosis of the H1N1 virus that will
keep the 23-year-old forward at home. The Bruins have told the
rest of their players to continue to take precautions to avoid
infection, including washing their hands frequently and using
the hand sanitizers that have been installed throughout their
facilities.

"We told them ... to get to us early if they have any symptoms,"
Chiarelli said before Boston's game against the Montreal
Canadiens.

Chiarelli said the Bruins are in line for H1N1 vaccines, but
they are a lower priority than people who are more susceptible
to the infection, like children and pregnant women.

"It's not available to us," Chiarelli said. "There's higher risk
groups."

Krejci, Boston's second leading scorer last season, will be kept
away from the team until he has had no symptoms or fever for 24
hours.

The Bruins, who had been shut out in their previous two games,
were already without forwards Milan Lucic, who is recovering
from surgery on his broken right index finger, and Marc Savard,
who is expected to miss another two to four weeks with a broken
left foot.

"We've just got to deal with our own issues and hope that he
gets better quickly," coach Claude Julien said. "That's the
reality of what's going on in North America these days and we
have to all be aware of it and do the best we can, and our team
has done that. Our doctors and everyone involved, we're taking
all the precautions we can to try and avoid it. But
unfortunately it's all around us."

Other NHL players who've said they had swine flu include New
York Islanders captain Doug Weight, who missed three games;
Washington forward Quintin Laing, Edmonton defenseman Ladislav
Smid and Colorado goaltender Peter Budaj.

After scoring 22 goals with 51 assists last season, Krejci
received a three-year contract worth more than $11 million a few
days before having hip surgery in June. In 14 games this season,
he has one goal and four assists.

The team said Krejci started to feel sick after Tuesday's 2-0
loss to the Red Wings in Detroit.

"It's kind of been like that so far this year, one thing after
another," forward Blake Wheeler said. "It definitely hurts
having Dave out, but we have guys that can step up in his place
and hopefully get the job done.

"In our sport, or I guess in any sport, you have such close
physical contact with guys, you've just got to be careful and
you've got to take all the necessary steps - using hand
sanitizer, making sure that you aren't putting your hands in
your eyes, stuff that your mom taught you when you were little."