Claude Giroux

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Claude Giroux
Date of birth January 12, 1988
place of birth Hearst , Ontario , Canada
size 180 cm
Weight 84 kg
position center
number # 28
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2006 , 1st round, 22nd position
Philadelphia Flyers
Career stations
2004-2005 Cumberland Grads
2005-2008 Olympiques de Gatineau
2008-2009 Philadelphia Phantoms
since 2009 Philadelphia Flyers
2012 Polar bears Berlin

Claude Giroux (born January 12, 1988 in Hearst , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player . The center has played for the Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League since 2009 and has been captain of the team since 2013 . With the Canadian national team , he won gold medals at the 2015 World Cup and the 2016 World Cup of Hockey .

Career

Claude Giroux in the jersey of the Olympiques de Gatineau (2008).

Juniors (2004-2008)

Claude Giroux began his career in 2004 in the Canadian Junior League CJHL with the Cumberland Grads , where he scored 40 points in 48 games. In the summer of 2005 he moved to the high-class Canadian junior league Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Quebec to the Olympiques de Gatineau . Giroux had a very good first year there with 39 goals and 64 assists in 69 games, moved into the semi-finals of the playoffs with the Olympiques and was elected to the league's all-rookie team.

Due to his good performance, he was selected in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft by the Philadelphia Flyers in the first round at position 22. Oddly enough , Philadelphia's then General Manager Bobby Clarke forgot Giroux's name when he announced the Flyers' first round poll. Giroux played another year in the LHJMQ and was the first player in the league to reach the 50 point mark during the 2006/07 season, for which he only needed 22 games. However, he could not keep himself at the top of the top scorer and was the fourth best scorer in the league with 112 points in 63 games.

Philadelphia Flyers (since 2007)

After failing with the Olympiques in the first round of the playoffs, he moved to the Philadelphia Phantoms , the farm team of the Philadelphia Flyers, in the AHL , where he made his professional debut, scoring one goal in five games and preparing one. At the end of July 2007 he finally received an entry-level contract with the Philadelphia Flyers . In August and September 2007 he played with a Canadian U20 selection in the eight-game Super Series against Russia . With three hits and five assists, Giroux was one of the top scorers of the series, which Canada won 7-0 in a tie.

In September 2007 he took part in the Philadelphia Flyers training camp to recommend himself for a place in the NHL squad, but was sent back to the LHJMQ to his junior team in Gatineau in the end. There he first played the first half of the season and at the turn of the year took part with the Canadian junior team in the U20 World Junior Championship in 2008 , where the team won the gold medal. He finally made his debut in the NHL in mid-February when the Flyers called him to their squad for two games due to injury problems. He then returned to Gatineau and although he had missed 15 league games, he was still the second best scorer in the league with 106 points in 55 games. In the playoffs, Giroux was the clearly dominant player in the LHJMQ. In 19 games, he met 17 times and prepared 34 hits, bringing him to 51 points and leading the scorer standings by 19 points. The Olympiques finally won the Coupe du Président as playoff winner and Giroux the trophy Guy Lafleur as the most valuable player in the playoffs and took part in the Memorial Cup final round, where they failed prematurely.

After Giroux could not be recommended for the NHL squad of the Flyers during the pre-season preparation in the run-up to the season 2008/09 , he was first transferred to the farm team Philadelphia Phantoms in the American Hockey League . There he was able to convince right away and in December 2008 was voted Player of the Month in the AHL with eight goals and six assists from eight games. As a result, the Flyers called him to the NHL squad and scored his first goal in the top division of North America in January 2009 in the 3-2 loss to the Florida Panthers . The Canadian finished the season with a total of 29 points from 42 games. The following year he played alongside James van Riemsdyk within an attacking formation and was able to achieve a total of 47 scorer points from 82 games despite the team's moderate season performance. In the last main round game, Giroux ensured the game-decisive hit in the shootout against the New York Rangers for the passage of the Flyers into the playoffs . With 10 goals and 11 assists, the attacker played a major role in his team's entry into the Stanley Cup finals, where they lost six games to the Chicago Blackhawks .

Giroux in the Philadelphia Flyers jersey (2012).

In November 2010, Giroux extended his contract in Philadelphia for three years for a total reported salary of $ 11.25 million. In the 2010/11 season he was finally able to establish himself as a top player with the Flyers and took part in the NHL All-Star Game in January 2011 . The right-shooter finished the main round with 25 hits and 51 assists, where he played the 200th NHL game of his career in March 2011 against the New York Islanders . After the Flyers left long-time regulars Jeff Carter and Mike Richards in the summer break of 2011 , Giroux took on even more responsibility for the 2011/12 season and formed the team's first attack line with Scott Hartnell and Jaromír Jágr . For much of the season, the Canadian led the scorer rankings as the strongest attacker in the league and with 93 scorer points played the season with the highest points in his career so far, but in the end Evgeni Malkin had to admit defeat for the Hart Memorial Trophy . In April 2012 Giroux scored the first hat-trick of his NHL career in the second game of the first playoff round against the Pittsburgh Penguins . In the further course of the post-season he scored eight goals and nine assists, but retired with his team in the second round against the New Jersey Devils . The center forward then underwent surgery on both wrists, stating that opponent Sidney Crosby hit him on the wrists several times during the first play-off round. In June 2012, EA Sports announced that Giroux would appear on the cover of NHL 13 .

On October 4, 2012, Claude Giroux signed a contract with the Eisbären Berlin from the German Ice Hockey League due to the lockout of the 2012/13 NHL season . After nine games for the polar bears, he returned to North America due to a shoulder and neck injury, before he returned to the Flyers' squad after the end of the player strike and was appointed the new team captain in January 2013 as the successor to the long-term injured Chris Pronger . After the Canadian initially struggled with moderate appearances, he was able to build on earlier offensive performances from February 2013 on the side of Jakub Voráček and finished the shortened main round with 48 scorer points from 48 games. In July 2013, he extended his contract again for eight years with a reported total salary of 66.2 million US dollars.

The first half of the 2013/14 season , like the entire team, could hardly convince Giroux, so that the attacker did not receive a nomination for the Canadian national ice hockey team at the 2014 Winter Olympics . In the further course of the season he managed to increase his offensive performance and end the season as the fourth best scorer in the league. He won the gold medal with the national team at the 2015 World Cup , as well as the 2016 World Cup of Hockey .

In the 2017/18 season, Giroux reached the mark of 100 scorer points for the first time, with 102 points in 82 games, placing himself in second place behind Connor McDavid on the scorer list. He also led the entire league with 68 assists (together with Blake Wheeler ) and was elected to the NHL Second All-Star Team at the end of the season .

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2004/05 Cumberland Grads CJHL 48 13 27 40 30th - - - - -
2005/06 Olympiques de Gatineau LHJMQ 69 39 64 103 64 17th 5 15th 20th 24
2006/07 Olympiques de Gatineau LHJMQ 63 48 64 112 49 5 2 5 7th 2
2006/07 Philadelphia Phantoms AHL 5 1 1 2 6th - - - - -
2007/08 Olympiques de Gatineau LHJMQ 55 38 68 106 37 19th 17th 34 51 6th
2008 Olympiques de Gatineau Memorial Cup 3 1 1 2 2
2007/08 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2008/09 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 42 9 18th 27 14th 6th 2 3 5 6th
2008/09 Philadelphia Phantoms AHL 33 17th 17th 34 22nd - - - - -
2009/10 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 82 16 31 47 23 23 10 11 21st 4th
2010/11 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 82 25th 51 76 47 11 1 11 12 8th
2011/12 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 77 28 65 93 29 10 8th 9 17th 13
2012/13 Polar bears Berlin DEL 9 4th 15th 19th 6th - - - - -
2012/13 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 48 13 35 48 22nd - - - - -
2013/14 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 82 28 58 86 46 7th 2 4th 6th 2
2014/15 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 81 25th 48 73 36 - - - - -
2015/16 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 78 22nd 45 67 53 6th 0 1 1 2
2016/17 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 82 14th 44 58 38 - - - - -
2017/18 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 82 34 68 102 20th 6th 1 2 3 2
2018/19 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 82 22nd 63 85 24 - - - - -
LHJMQ total 187 125 196 321 150 41 24 54 78 32
AHL total 38 18th 18th 36 28 - - - - -
NHL overall 820 236 526 762 352 69 24 41 65 37

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2007 Canada Super Series 1st place 8th 3 5 8th 22nd
2008 Canada U20 World Cup 1st place, gold 7th 2 4th 6th 8th
2013 Canada WM 5th place 8th 3 5 8th 12
2015 Canada WM 1st place, gold 10 3 7th 10 4th
2016 Canada World cup 1st place, gold 1 0 0 0 0
2017 Canada WM 2nd place, silver 10 2 4th 6th 4th
Juniors overall 15th 5 9 14th 30th
Men overall 29 8th 16 24 20th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Commons : Claude Giroux  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Giroux, Briere sign with Berlin of German Elite League. The Sports Network , October 4, 2012, accessed October 4, 2012 .
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Squad of the Philadelphia Flyers in the season 2019/20
personal data
SURNAME Giroux, Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey striker
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Hearst , Ontario