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."