Following an already unique 2019-2020, Philadelphia Flyers captain Claude Giroux is ready to take on another unique season in 2020-2021.
Imagine being a rookie in 2019-2020. Your first season in the NHL and it’s shortened due to a pandemic, then, you’re confined inside a sanitation bubble for the entirety of the 2020 NHL Stanley Cup playoffs. Surely, that is unique. Now, your sophomore season schedule consists exclusively of division rivals. At the NHL level, you only know change as a constant.
Now, consider Claude Giroux, the captain of the Philadelphia Flyers. He’s played through the unique pandemic shortened season and will play through the abbreviated inter-divisional season.