Claude Giroux
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| Born |
January 12, 1988 Hearst, Ontario, Canada |
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| Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) | ||
| Weight | 185 lb (84 kg; 13 st 3 lb) | ||
| Position | Centre | ||
| Shoots | Right | ||
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NHL team Former teams |
Philadelphia Flyers Eisbären Berlin |
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| National team |
 Canada
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| NHL Draft | 22nd overall, 2006 Philadelphia Flyers |
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| Playing career | 2007–present | ||
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| Men's ice hockey | ||
| Representing Canada
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| World Championships | ||
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2015 Czech Republic | |
| Canada Cup / World Cup | ||
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2016 Toronto | |
| World Junior Championships | ||
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2008 Czech Republic | |
Claude Giroux (French pronunciation: [klod ʒiʁu]; born January 12, 1988) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player and captain of the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Flyers selected Giroux 22nd overall in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft. He was named team captain on January 13, 2013.
Prior to playing in the NHL, Giroux played his major junior career with the Gatineau Olympiques of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL), where he helped the team win a 2008 President's Cup and earned the Guy Lafleur Trophy as the 2008 playoff MVP. Internationally, he won a gold medal with Team Canada in the 2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.
Giroux made his debut with the Flyers in February 2008 and joined the roster full-time midway through the 2008–09 season. In 2011, after the blockbuster trades of Mike Richards and Jeff Carter, Giroux took over the role of the club's first line centre. Giroux was the club's top point-scorer in the 2010–11, 2011–12 and 2013–14 seasons. In 2012 and 2014, Giroux finished third in the League in point-scoring.
Giroux grew up playing hockey in his hometown of Hearst, Ontario, and played Bantam A for the Hearst Lumber Kings (NOHA) in the 2001–02 season. In the summer of 2002, he and his family moved to the Ottawa, Ontario suburb of Orleans. In Orleans, Giroux played Major Bantam AA and Minor Midget AA for the Cumberland Barons, and was the club's leading scorer in the 2002–03 and 2003–04 seasons. Eligible for the 2004 Ontario Hockey League (OHL) draft, Giroux entered but went undrafted. In the 2004–2005 season, Giroux played for the Cumberland Grads. Despite missing most of the season after contracting mononucleosis, Giroux scored 40 points in 48 games and was named Canadian Junior Hockey League (CJHL)'s Rookie of the Year. However, Giroux went undrafted once again at the 2005 OHL Draft.
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