Before the season, captain Claude Giroux heard all the whispers: His career was on the downswing. He was overpaid and wasn’t a good leader. If the Flyers could get some quality young prospects in a trade, it was time to deal him.
More than three months later, the anti-Giroux whispers that filled the Twitterverse have changed. Emphatically.
Not only is Giroux, who recently turned 30, proving the doubters wrong, but he is having one of the best seasons of his brilliant 10-year career.
And doing it while learning a new position, left wing.
On Sunday in Tampa, Fla.