Breakaways: Giroux will be honored by the Philadelphia Sportswriters Association as the city's top athlete on Jan. 30 at the Crowne Plaza in Cherry Hill. Tickets are available at PSWAdinner.com…… After a 2-2 road trip, the Flyers host Minnesota on Tuesday. "It'll be nice to go back home to our fans and get a couple points and take it from there," said Simmonds, who began Saturday on a line with Matt Read and Brayden Schenn. Later in the game, Sean Couturier replaced Schenn on the line, which was the Flyers' best on the night..…Having successfully hosted the Winter Classic, Flyers president Peter Luukko hopes it will sway the NHL toward having a future All-Star game at the Wells Fargo Center. "We contacted the league last year and said we'd love to have the game here," Luukko said. "Coming off the Winter Classic and all the excitement it produced, we feel we'd be a great candidate. We're one of the few arenas built in the era that hasn't had one." The Spectrum hosted the 1992 All-Star Game; the WFC, then known as the Core States Center, opened in 1996.