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Claude Giroux

A thousand games and 923 points, with the 26th-lowest slot share of 393 forwards and a 55.1 per cent attempt share that belongs to Florida.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2007-08	PHI	2	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	9:35
2008-09	PHI	42	9	18	27	+10	14	2	0	0	67	13.4	15:10
2009-10	PHI	82	16	31	47	-9	23	8	0	2	145	11.0	16:37
2010-11	PHI	82	25	51	76	+20	47	8	3	5	169	14.8	19:24
2011-12	PHI	77	28	65	93	+6	29	6	0	5	242	11.6	21:33
2012-13	PHI	48	13	35	48	-7	22	6	1	2	137	9.5	21:10
2013-14	PHI	82	28	58	86	+7	46	7	0	7	223	12.6	20:26
2014-15	PHI	81	25	48	73	-3	36	14	0	4	279	9.0	20:34
2015-16	PHI	78	22	45	67	-8	53	6	1	5	241	9.1	20:33
2016-17	PHI	82	14	44	58	-15	38	5	0	3	199	7.0	19:07
2017-18	PHI	82	34	68	102	+28	20	9	0	1	193	17.6	20:22
2018-19	PHI	82	22	63	85	+9	24	2	1	4	229	9.6	21:27
2019-20	PHI	69	21	32	53	+7	28	7	1	6	197	10.7	18:59
2020-21	PHI	54	16	27	43	-4	12	1	0	2	120	13.3	18:06
2021-22	PHI/FLA	75	21	44	65	-5	26	5	0	0	205	10.2	19:04
2022-23 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	1018	294	629	923	+34	418	86	7	46	2648	11.1	19:35

This Season So Far

The 2022-23 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

75 games between Philadelphia and Florida, 21 goals and 44 assists for 65 points at 19:04 a night, minus-5, twenty-six penalty minutes, 205 shots. Twenty-second overall in 2006, fifteen seasons, 1,018 games, 923 points.

One thousand and eighteen NHL games across fifteen seasons, all but the last three months of them in Philadelphia, and 923 points.

The Finesse Game

Six hundred and twenty-nine career assists against 294 goals across fifteen seasons, and he takes the 26th-lowest share of shots from the slot of the 393 qualified forwards.

Thirty-seven per cent from the slot at a 32-foot median — the 6th and 94th percentiles. This is a passer’s shot chart and it has been one for a decade.

8.60 shots per 60 is the 70th percentile at 10.2 per cent, against a career rate of 11.1 across 2,648 shots.

2.24 even-strength points per 60 is the 73rd percentile and thirty-five per cent of his points came on the power play, from 3:13 a night at the 91st.

54.6 per cent of the expected goals is the 82nd percentile and 55.1 per cent of the attempts the 86th. Those are the best shares of any forward arriving at this club, and the qualifier is the club he left: Florida finished 1st in the league in both measures. His own deployment was ordinary — 50.8 per cent of his end-zone starts came in the attacking end, the 319th of 652 skaters — so the shares are the roster around him rather than a soft chair.

His ice went 47-35 against an expectation of 50.32-41.90.

The Physical Game

2.85 hits per 60 is the 35th percentile and 0.67 blocks the 4th at 5-11 and 186 pounds. There is no physical game and there has not needed to be one.

1.01 penalties drawn per 60 against 0.55 taken is the 84th-percentile net.

The Intangibles

21.9 mph is the 20th percentile, 3.0 bursts per 60 the 20th, 9.46 miles per 60 the 33rd. At 34, every chip measurement is in the bottom third of the league.

He is 34 and returns to the province he was born in, having spent fifteen seasons in one uniform. The assist record and the shot chart are the two most stable things in this chapter.

The possession share is Florida’s and will not travel to a club that finished 21st. What travels is 629 assists and a power play that already rated 4th without him.

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
a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed

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.

perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
33.3% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 96th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
playmakera strength· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“Six hundred and twenty-nine career assists against 294 goals across fifteen seasons, and he takes the 26th-lowest share of shots from the slot of the 393 qualified forwards.”
leadershipa strength· the room, and who holds it
“One thousand and eighteen NHL games across fifteen seasons, all but the last three months of them in Philadelphia, and 923 points.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 1,054 minutes

Expected goals: 54.6%; 84th pct
Shot attempts: 55.1%; 88th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 47 for, 35 against. Expected: 50.3 and 41.9.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

74th

Numbers

84th

The two rank him within 10 points of one another. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason.

Both bars are percentiles among the 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 66 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, 2021-22 · 75 games

Top speed: 21.9 mph; 40th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.95 a game
Distance: 3.01 miles a game
Hardest shot: 92.1 mph; 77th pct

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.

Usual linemates

2021-22 with PHI · 810 minutes at five-on-five

Cam Atkinsonoff the roster52%
Travis Konecny36%
Sean Couturieroff the roster29%

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, 2021-22

The club: FLA took 56.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 54.6% — 1.9 below the club he did it on.
The role: 1,054 minutes at five-on-five — 69th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Cam Atkinson	52.2%	55.9%	39.3%
Ivan Provorov	49.5%	56.9%	46.3%
Travis Sanheim	58.4%	52.7%	45.3%

52.2% together, 55.9% for him apart and 39.3% for Atkinson apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Atkinson 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

249 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 21 of them goals. His median goal came from 22 feet. 28% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 33% from beyond forty.