Teams are questioning Giroux's desire and heart

Is he thinking too much about his future? It's possible. For a player who spent his entire career in the same city, the strong possibility to be dealt for the first time in his life can be overwhelming.

Teams around the league know it, and they are trying to lower the value of the Flyers' captain. A Western Conference scout told Brandon Sommermann that teams are starting to question his desire to leave Philadelphia.

It's a mind game there. Contending organizations are aware that the price to pay to acquire Giroux will be high. The word seems to be : do anything that you can to diminish his value...