Giroux finally gets Cam Atkinson wish

Eric Hartline-USA TODAY Sports Ahead of Tuesday’s meeting with the horrific Arizona Coyotes, the Philadelphia Flyers shuffled the lineup on their power play a little bit, and there is one distinct promotion. Cam Atkinson is now on the top unit and all it took was scoring six goals in seven games.

Now with a five-man unit of Sean Couturier, Travis Konecny, Ivan Provorov, Claude Giroux, and Atkinson; the Flyers have a lot of firepower to unload on teams that are hopefully not paying attention shorthanded. There is one player that is slightly more appreciative of the lineup switch compared to most.

“When [Atkinson] was in Columbus, I saw a player where he works, he battles, he can put the puck…