Claude Giroux’s favorite moments involving the man known as the father of Philadelphia hockey were always in the locker room after a loss, when Flyers co-founder and owner Ed Snider would offer some fiery words about the future that would make everyone forget what had just happened on the ice.
So with Snider back home in California when his team clinched a Stanley Cup playoff berth Saturday afternoon by beating the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Flyers captain took out his cell phone and began recording a Facetime video he knew the owner would want to see. The celebratory music blared in the background as players fistbumped in the locker room and Giroux turned the camera on the phone toward himself.