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Claude Giroux

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Claude Giroux

Ottawa Senators Right Wing #28

1,345 games, 1,165 points, and plus 20 at 38.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2007-08PHI2000-2000020.09:35
2008-09PHI4291827+10142006713.415:10
2009-10PHI82163147-92380214511.016:37
2010-11PHI82255176+204783516914.819:24
2011-12PHI77286593+62960524211.621:33
2012-13PHI48133548-7226121379.521:10
2013-14PHI82285886+74670722312.620:26
2014-15PHI81254873-33614042799.020:34
2015-16PHI78224567-8536152419.120:33
2016-17PHI82144458-15385031997.019:07
2017-18PHI823468102+282090119317.620:22
2018-19PHI82226385+9242142299.621:27
2019-20PHI69213253+72871619710.718:59
2020-21PHI54162743-41210212013.318:06
2021-22PHI/FLA75214465-52650020510.219:04
2022-23OTT82354479+43470621416.418:48
2023-24OTT82214364-142632218311.520:06
2024-25OTT81153550-81840313810.918:12
2025-26OTT82143549+202210313810.116:18
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—13453797861165+36518101960332111.419:17

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.

Last Season

14 goals and 35 assists in all 82 games — 49 points, plus-20, at 16:18 a night. His 1,345th career game and his 1,165th point. He turns 39 in January.

The Finesse Game

The hands and the head are entirely intact and the legs went some time ago. 35 assists in 82 games at this age is a genuinely remarkable number, and they are made from a standstill on the half-wall, waiting for a lane nobody else has seen.

The shooting has faded: 169 unblocked attempts, 10 goals, median 27 feet with 36 per cent inside 20.

786 career assists.

The Physical Game

5-11, 186, and he has spent 19 seasons being harder to play against than his size suggests. 22 penalty minutes.

He takes faceoffs, kills penalties on the fourth-best unit in the league, and still goes to the net when the play demands it.

The Intangibles

56.6 per cent of the expected goals, 94th percentile, and 54.4 per cent of the shot attempts, 88th, with the goals 50-36 in his favour.

Plus-20 at 38, second on the club to Zub, in his nineteenth season.

5 points in his last 10. This is the last stretch of one of the more underrated careers of the century, and he is still one of the 6 best players on a first-place defensive team.

What kind of player

The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.

  • measuredcomputed here from the season's own data

Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.

  • durable· was available

    82 of 82 games

    Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,016 minutes

Expected goals
56.6%
94th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
54.4%
88th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 50 for, 36 against. Expected: 43.1 and 33.0.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
82nd
Numbers
94th

The two rank him within 12 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 78 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2025-26 · 82 games

Top speed
21.8 mph
31st pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2

Bursts over 20 mph
0.90 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
2.54 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
88.9 mph
77th pct

one shot; the league's average best is 83.6

A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

5

points in his last 10 games — 2 goals, 3 assists, 23 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1016 minutes at five-on-five

Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.

Why the numbers land there

Five-on-five, 2025-26

The club
OTT took 54.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 56.6% — 1.7 above the club he did it on.
The role
First line, 1,016 minutes at five-on-five — 61st percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Artem Zub54.6%58.1%51.1%
Michael Amadio55.3%57.4%50.4%
Jake Sanderson55.9%57.1%55.8%

54.6% together, 58.1% for him apart and 51.1% for Zub apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Zub behind.

Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.

Where he shoots from

goal on goal missed

169 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 10 of them goals. His median goal came from 11 feet. 36% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 25% from beyond forty.