Saturday, November 12 might not have been a date Claude Giroux literally had circled on his calendar, but it’s certainly one he took mental note of when the NHL released its full season schedule.
Giroux, after spending 15 seasons with the Philadelphia Flyers, entered Wells Fargo Center as a member of the visiting team for the first time in his career Saturday. Now a veteran cornerstone on a young, up-and-coming Ottawa Senators squad, the seven-time NHL All-Star’s return to Philadelphia — a city that’s become his second home since the Flyers drafted him in 2006 — was intensely emotional.