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Claude Giroux

Sixty-four points at 36, in his seventeenth season and his 1,182nd game.

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	OTT	82	35	44	79	+4	34	7	0	6	214	16.4	18:48
2023-24	OTT	82	21	43	64	-14	26	3	2	2	183	11.5	20:06
2024-25 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	1182	350	716	1066	+24	478	96	9	54	3045	11.5	19:34

This Season So Far

The 2024-25 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

All 82 games, 21 goals and 43 assists for 64 points, 3 on the power play, 2 shorthanded, 26 penalty minutes, 20:06 a night and minus-14. He took 52.7 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,195 minutes, the 73rd percentile, and his ice went 52-66 against an expectation of 54.60-49.09.

Three goals of finishing below what the chances were worth and seventeen more conceded than they called for — the largest goaltending deficit of anybody on the club. He was on the right side of the chances at both ends and finished minus-14 anyway.

The Finesse Game

220 attempts at a median of 28 feet with 34 per cent of them from inside twenty, 183 of those on goal, converted at 11.5 per cent against a career 11.49 across 3,045 shots.

716 career assists in 1,182 games, and 43 of them at 36. He has always been a passer who scores rather than a scorer who passes, and the shooting percentage has been within a point of eleven and a half for seventeen seasons. Ninety-six career power-play goals.

The Physical Game

He is 5-11 and 186 and took 26 penalty minutes.

478 career penalty minutes in 1,182 games. He never played a physical game and does not need one now; he protects the puck by holding it where a defender cannot reach it and by knowing a half-second earlier than everybody else where it is going.

The Intangibles

Twenty-second overall in 2006, seventeen seasons, 1,066 points in 1,182 games, and a long captaincy in Philadelphia.

Nine career shorthanded goals and two of them last season, which is a 36-year-old still being trusted on the kill. He is the most decorated player on this roster by a wide margin and 64 points at 36 says the reading of the game has not gone anywhere.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,195 minutes

Expected goals: 52.7%; 73rd pct
Shot attempts: 54.3%; 86th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 52 for, 66 against. Expected: 54.6 and 49.1.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

79th

Numbers

73rd

The two rank him within 6 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 437 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 72 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.

Usual linemates

2023-24 · 1195 minutes at five-on-five

Tim Stützle57%
Brady Tkachuk35%
Mathieu Josephnow STL35%

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, 2023-24

The club: OTT took 49.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.7% — 3.5 above the club he did it on.
The role: First line, 1,195 minutes at five-on-five — 82nd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Tim Stützle	53.5%	51.6%	47.3%
Jake Sanderson	55.3%	50.9%	51.5%
Brady Tkachuk	59.0%	48.2%	53.0%

53.5% together, 51.6% for him apart and 47.3% for Stützle apart. Stützle was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Stützle than for him.

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

220 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 22 of them goals. His median goal came from 19 feet. 34% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 24% from beyond forty.