"Tomas Holmstrom's quest to play in 1,000 games hit a wall Tuesday.

Holmstrom is at 995 after missing Tuesday's game against the Flames with sore knees.

Holmstrom had an injection of Synvisc in both knees last week and had a bad reaction. He couldn't skate Monday when the team arrived in Calgary, but was able to skate Tuesday morning and hoped he would play Thursday in Vancouver.

"It's a big difference from yesterday," Holmstrom said. "It blows up (after getting shots) but it settles down. (The pain) started to bother me before the break. This was the only window (in the schedule), we had four or five days off (during the break).""