Giroux jokingly attributes Flyers' success to reporter's injury

Claude Giroux has an interesting theory about the Philadelphia Flyers' late-season run.

"Since Tim Panaccio got (his) lower-body injury, we started playing better," the Flyers captain joked in the postgame scrum following a 3-2 overtime win over the Winnipeg Jets on Monday night.

Panaccio, a Flyers insider for CSN Philadelphia, tore several ligaments and broke two bones in his ankle when he slipped on a patch of ice in Montreal before a game against the Canadiens on Feb. 19.

"This is a very significant setback for me," Panaccio told the Montreal Gazette in late February. "I could miss the entire playoffs."

The club is 12-4-3 in the 19 games since the injury, and it now holds the second Eastern Conference wild-card spot with a game in hand on the Detroit Red Wings.

Just asked @tpanotchCSN about @28CGiroux's comments last night. He said: "The sad irony is, the G-man is absolutely correct."

- Sarah Baicker (@sbaickerTCN) March 29, 2016

Surely there's no correlation, but it makes you think.

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