While he hasn’t been a Flyer for even a full season yet, Cam Atkinson becomes one of the leading candidates to fill the leadership vacancy left by the expected departure of captain Claude Giroux. Prior […]
PHILADELPHIA — It certainly was only a fitting gesture for the Flyers to win a game on a night when they celebrated the 1,000th game of Claude Giroux’s storied career. In a season filled […]
It’s happened only one other time in team history, so why wouldn’t the Flyers want to make a big deal out of Thursday night’s celebration to commemorate Claude Giroux’s 1,000th NHL game? From special pre-game […]
In any given sport, a number of former professional athletes who haven’t played in 20, 30 or 40 years look like they haven’t even exercised in 20, 30 or 40 years. […]
VOORHEES, N.J. – Over the years, Claude Giroux’s name has sometimes come up in the same conversation as superstars Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin and for good reason. While Giroux hasn’t won a Stanley Cup […]
Perhaps referencing a line or two from the old “Win one for the Gipper” speech of sports movie lore, Flyers head coach Mike Yeo suggested his team take a “Win one for Giroux” approach for […]
Sean Couturier has developed into one of the best Flyers of this generation and a lot of the credit for that has to go to Claude Giroux. According to Couturier, it was Giroux who played […]
Scott Hartnell remembers the time Claude Giroux was sitting in a Nashville bar when Flyer tough guy Craig Berube walked in. Giroux, competitive-to-a-fault at everything from poker to ping-pong, decided to challenge Berube – at […]
PHILADELPHIA – The most dreaded word in hockey lexicon probably isn’t penalized, suspended or injured. It’s benched. In the National Hockey League, being a healthy scratch is the ultimate humiliation. It usually means a player […]
The Flyers had already won once at Carolina this year and were knocking on the door for a second victory. But the Hurricanes’ Jordan Martinook scored with 3:50 left in […]
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