The Detroit Free Press reports this afternoon that forward Tomas Holmstrom is out of the lineup for tomorrow's game against the Edmonton Oilers due to a sore knee.

Forward Mark Hartigan will be called up from Grand Rapids to replace him in the lineup.

"I'm just a little sore," Holmstrom told the Freep's Helene St. James. "I hurt it against Carolina and then I played through it against Nashville. So I rested yesterday, rested today, and probably not (play) tomorrow, either. It's swollen and sore. (It hurts) when I twist."

Holmstrom added there have been no tests performed on the knee.

Head coach Mike Babcock said he wasn't sure what line combinations he would use in tomorrow's game, St. James reports, but Mikael Samuelsson was bumped up from the second line to take Holmstrom's spot with Henrik Zetterberg and Pavel Datsyuk.

Samuelsson spent parts of last season with the duo before Holmstrom took permanent residence on the line.

In other injury news, center Kris Draper expected to start skating with the team near the end of the week but isn't expected back in the lineup until sometime during the Red Wings' five-game road trip that bookends the Christmas holiday.

The prognosis on Kirk Maltby's sore lower back is good: The injury isn't serious -- and can't worsen -- and the team hopes an epidural will help lessen the inflammation. There currently is no timetable on Maltby's return.