Friday Morning Fly By: It’s all getting real

Photo by Debora Robinson/NHLI via Getty Images*Oh hey, the Claude Giroux trade rumors are starting to be a real-life thing, as hockey rumors do when they come out of Elliotte Friedman’s mouth. So that’s fine. [BSH]

*Anyhoo, there was a game last night. It went about as well as you thought it would. RECAP!

*You may have noticed that Derrick Brassard was back. Quicker than they wanted him to be, apparently, because so many players in the organization are in covid protocol right now. It’s all fine! [Inquirer]

*Charlie looks back on the trip out West, and why it went the way it did. [The Athletic]

*Back to the trade rumors, evidently the Flyers are looking at Lawson Crouse? Which would be just...…