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Claude Giroux

Fifty points at 37 in his 18th season, and 1,116 of them in a career that is now among the longest in the league.

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	OTT	81	15	35	50	-8	18	4	0	3	138	10.9	18:12
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	1263	365	751	1116	+16	496	100	9	57	3183	11.5	19:29

This Season So Far

The 2025-26 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

15 goals and 35 assists in 81 games — 50 points at 18:12 a night, with 4 power-play goals and 3 game-winners, at 37 years old.

50.8 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 49th percentile. His ice went 35-37 against an expectation of 37.47-36.35 — six goals of scoring missing on a line that was creating exactly as much as it conceded.

The Finesse Game

The hockey sense is the last thing to go and it has not gone. He sees the play two passes ahead, he holds the puck on the half wall until the killing box commits, and 35 assists at 37 is a man whose hands still do what his head asks.

138 attempts at a median of 30 feet, split roughly evenly between inside 20 and beyond 40. The release is quick and the shot is no longer a threat that changes a defenceman’s angle.

The Physical Game

5-11 and 186, and he has never been big. What he has always had is a willingness to go to the middle and take the punishment that comes with it, and at 37 he still does.

18 penalty minutes in 81 games. He does not retaliate, he does not agitate, and he has spent nearly two decades being the smartest man on the ice rather than the heaviest.

The Intangibles

Twenty-second overall in 2006, captain in Philadelphia for eight seasons, 1,263 games and 1,116 points, and a Hart finalist in the season he put up 102 of them.

He came home to Ottawa in 2022 at 34 and has scored 79, 64 and 50 points in the three seasons since. Last spring was the first playoff series of his Ottawa career and the club would not have been in it 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
he lacks itraised, and he does not have it

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.

clutch· scored his goals when the game was still live
3 of his 15 goals late or in overtime, 93rd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure barely repeats (0.06) · 10% keep it
durable· was available
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
playmakera strength· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“He sees the play two passes ahead, he holds the puck on the half wall until the killing box commits, and 35 assists at 37 is a man whose hands still do what his head asks.”
net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“What he has always had is a willingness to go to the middle and take the punishment that comes with it, and at 37 he still does.”
retaliateshe lacks it· answers the cross-check, and takes the second penalty
“He does not retaliate, he does not agitate, and he has spent nearly two decades being the smartest man on the ice rather than the heaviest.”
agitatorhe lacks it· gets under the skin; draws the retaliation
“He does not retaliate, he does not agitate, and he has spent nearly two decades being the smartest man on the ice rather than the heaviest.”
leadershipa strength· the room, and who holds it
“Twenty-second overall in 2006, captain in Philadelphia for eight seasons, **1,263 games and 1,116 points**, and a Hart finalist in the season he put up 102 of them.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,014 minutes

Expected goals: 50.8%; 61st pct
Shot attempts: 52.8%; 81st pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 35 for, 37 against. Expected: 37.5 and 36.4.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

80th

Numbers

61st

The two rank him within 19 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 637 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, 2024-25 · 81 games

Top speed: 22.6 mph; 65th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.70 a game
Distance: 2.88 miles a game
Hardest shot: 92.5 mph; 90th 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

2024-25 · 1014 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, 2024-25

The club: OTT took 50.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.8% — 0.6 above the club he did it on.
The role: First line, 1,014 minutes at five-on-five — 63rd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Tim Stützle	54.1%	45.0%	53.5%
Thomas Chabot	51.5%	50.2%	53.1%
Jake Sanderson	49.8%	51.4%	52.5%

54.1% together, 45.0% for him apart and 53.5% for Stützle apart. He was worse away from Stützle, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Stützle did.

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

173 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 15 of them goals. His median goal came from 26 feet. 30% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 29% from beyond forty.