The Florida Panthers, Colorado Avalanche, and St. Louis Blues are among the teams showing interest in Philadelphia Flyers captain Claude Giroux, TSN's Pierre LeBrun reported on Thursday's "Insider Trading."

Giroux is in the final season of an eight-year contract with an $8.275-million cap hit before becoming an unrestricted free agent. His pact also contains a full no-movement clause, so he controls his own destiny.

The 34-year-old is having another stellar campaign. He's tallied 17 goals and 23 assists in 53 games - both of which rank second on the Flyers. He's adept at playing both center and wing, too, and has won 61.5% of his faceoffs this season.

The Flyers sit last in the Metropolitan Division and are widely expected to be sellers at the trade deadline.

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Dallas Stars defenseman Miro Heiskanen has been diagnosed with mononucleosis and is out indefinitely, the team announced Thursday.

Dallas placed him on injured reserve retroactive to March 2, the date of his most recent game.

Heiskanen is in the midst of an elite season with 29 points in 52 games while averaging nearly 25 minutes per night. His underlying metrics are sensational as well.

The 22-year-old is in the first season of an eight-year, $67.6-million extension he signed in July.

Dallas currently holds the second wild-card spot in the Western Conference playoff race, thanks to a 7-2-1 surge in its last 10 games.

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After a day off on Wednesday, shot props return in full force as we comb through the best values ahead of Thursday's jam-packed 13-game slate.

Let's get down to business.

Jack Eichel over 3.5 shots (-125)

It took Eichel a little while to get going, but he appears to have his game back on track. The points are starting to come and so, too, are the shots. Eichel amassed at least four shots in seven of his last eight games, falling just one puck shy in the lone exception.

Now he draws a juicy matchup against a Buffalo Sabres team that's allowed five-on-five shots at a higher rate than the Columbus Blue Jackets this season. Not only is this an advantageous spot for volume shooters such as Eichel, but he should also have some extra motivation going up against his former team for the first time.

Look for Eichel to have a big night.

Anze Kopitar over 2.5 shots (-106)

Kopitar lives for games in Los Angeles. The Kings center averages 3.2 shots per game on home soil this season, hitting the over on his shot total nearly 70% of the time.

His numbers dip significantly on the road. Kopitar averages a full shot fewer per game and recorded three shots only 11 times in 30 games. That's a 37% hit rate - barely over half of what he manages at home.

Not only is Kopitar at home tonight, but he also has a mouth-watering matchup against the San Jose Sharks. No NHL team has conceded more shot attempts (65.4) per 60 minutes over the last 10 games than the Sharks. Kopitar should be able to take advantage.

Mark Giordano over 2.5 shots (+115)

Giordano has been very trigger-happy of late, attempting 55 shots over the last 10 games. That's good for top spot on the Seattle Kraken.

The shots should continue Thursday night against the Ottawa Senators. The Senators aren't exactly a stout defensive team and are prone to giving up a lot of production to defenders. They rank 30th in shots against per game versus defensemen and are only one goal against shy of tying for last in the NHL.

Giordano is heavily involved in Seattle's attack on any given night - don't expect that to change against Ottawa.

Todd Cordell is a sports betting writer at theScore. Be sure to follow him on Twitter @ToddCordell.

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Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Jack Campbell will miss a minimum of two weeks due to a rib injury, the team announced Thursday.

Petr Mrazek will assume the starting role in Campbell's absence. Additionally, the Leafs recalled Erik Kallgren from the AHL's Toronto Marlies.

Campbell was in goal for Tuesday's win over the Seattle Kraken. It's unclear when he suffered the injury, but Leafs defenseman Morgan Rielly said the goaltender told him he's been dealing with the ailment for a while, according to Josh Clipperton of The Canadian Press.

Campbell earned an All-Star nomination for his first-half performance but has struggled of late. Since the calendar flipped to 2022, he's posted a meager .882 save percentage in 17 appearances.

Mrazek owns a .890 clip and a 3.28 goals-against average for the season.

Toronto has six games on its schedule over the next two weeks, beginning Thursday against the Arizona Coyotes.

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The Philadelphia Flyers have signed defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen to a 5-year contract extension carrying a $5.1 million average annual value, reports TSN's Darren Dreger.

Ristolainen was scheduled to hit unrestricted free agency this offseason.

More to come.

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The St. Louis Blues expect to be without defenseman Scott Perunovich for about two months, they announced Wednesday.

Perunovich will undergo left wrist surgery and is scheduled to be re-evaluated in eight weeks.

The 23-year-old has collected six points (all assists) while averaging 15:27 of ice time in 19 games with the Blues this season, his first NHL campaign. He's also posted three goals and 19 assists in 17 contests with St. Louis' AHL affiliate, the Springfield Thunderbirds, in 2021-22.

Perunovich won the Hobey Baker Award - which the NCAA hands out annually to its top Division I men's hockey player - in 2020. The Minnesota-born rearguard racked up 40 points in 34 games during his junior and final season with the University of Minnesota Duluth in 2019-20. He helped the Bulldogs win back-to-back national titles before signing with the Blues in July 2020.

St. Louis drafted him 45th overall in 2018.

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Vegas Golden Knights superstar Jack Eichel is back in Buffalo, and he spoke about his falling out with the franchise ahead of his highly anticipated clash with the Sabres on Thursday.

Eichel mentioned being stuck in limbo while waiting for neck surgery and being stripped of his captaincy as points of contention as the relationship deteriorated over the offseason.

"I was frustrated," Eichel told ESPN's Emily Kaplan. "If you think about the reason why you took the captaincy away from me, it was because I didn't agree with you medically. Then you basically told me not to come around for training camp. At that point, it just felt like they were toying with me. So I was just, I was pretty over it."

Eichel was ultimately traded to Vegas in November and promptly underwent artificial disc replacement surgery, which the Sabres wouldn't sign off on. The 25-year-old debuted for the Golden Knights on Feb. 16 and has seven points in 10 games since returning to the ice.

While the split between Eichel and the Sabres was dramatic, he isn't harboring any hard feelings.

"I think about my time in Buffalo, it obviously ended a little bit messy," Eichel said. "But I hope (fans) can look past some of the things that happened maybe in the last year and think about the previous five-and-a-half, six years that I was there, and everything that I tried to do for the community, everything that I feel like I put forth on the ice as a hockey player, and know I just tried to do as much as I could for the city."

He added: "No bitterness. None whatsoever. I had a phenomenal time here," according to Mike Harrington of the Buffalo News.

Eichel also said he's curious about what kind of reaction he'll receive in his first game as a visitor at KeyBank Center.

"You wonder what the reception will be like, but I can't control that," Eichel said, per The Athletic's Jesse Granger. "I gave everything I had while I was here. Whatever the reception is, I'll be able to handle it."

Puck drop between the Golden Knights and Sabres is scheduled for 7 p.m. ET on Thursday.

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The Toronto Maple Leafs signed forward Kyle Clifford to a two-year contract extension with an average annual value of $762,500, the team announced Wednesday.

Toronto acquired Clifford from the St. Louis Blues earlier this season in exchange for future considerations. He's notched two assists in 10 games with the Maple Leafs and three goals in eight games with the AHL's Toronto Marlies.

Clifford also suited up for Toronto for 16 games during the 2019-20 season before he signed in St. Louis.

Toronto also announced a one-year, two-way extension for defenseman Carl Dahlstrom. He's played one game with the Leafs this season and has collected 13 assists in 36 appearances with the Marlies.

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