Confirmed Signing with Link: [OTT] F Claude Giroux signs with the Senators (3 years, $6.5M AAV)

[Rich Nixon]

I feel like someone else mentioned it in this thread, but Giroux's primary assets are his hands and his vision, and those aren't going anywhere. He doesn't rely on physicality or speed. He's not going to decline in the same way most players in this league do. He'll be a 50-point player until he's 40 if he feels like playing that long.

Also he's been in the league since about 2008 and he's missed a grand total of 15 games in that entire time. 0 injury concerns and tough as hell.

 

[SweSensFan]

Anyone watching a handful of sens games this season will know Giroux was not a bad signing.

You can bring your logic as much as you like and it may sound reasonable in theory but the only thing you are actually telling us is you haven't watched Giroux alot this year or you are absolutely clueless!

 

[captainpaxil]

I'm going to laugh when the sens trade giroux for the same value that Fletcher got three years later

 

[SpezDispenser]

I'm going to laugh when the sens trade giroux for the same value that Fletcher got three years later

I really don't think Ottawa has any intensions of trading Giroux unless he asks out. I could see him staying for a while after this contract.

 

[TeamRenzo]

I really don't think Ottawa has any intensions of trading Giroux unless he asks out. I could see him staying for a while after this contract.

I wouldnt be surprised if he joined the front office.

 

[Dan Patrick]

It’s negative 1000 degrees in Ottawa right now, no one wants to go outside, and it’s showing in this post.

 

[WarriorofTime]

He really is the quintessential Ottawa player. Good production but never really a winning hockey player. Not sure why he was the one brought in to “teach them how to win” when they already extended a bunch of productive one-way forwards. A grittier, more two-way, proven winner with cup winning experience would have been the smarter play imo.

 

[UglyPuckling]

It’s hard to explain why the Sens continue to be so bad. They have a collection of good young players. Added to it the experience of Giroux. He’s been excellent. Yet they continue to be awful.

It took awhile before what Jacques Martin was teaching them sunk in and became routine. Around Jan. 13th is when that transition seemed to have occurred. Since then, their play & record has been better with a small lapse here & there. They are 8-5-4 since Jan. 13th taking 21 of 34 possible points. They are 6 - 3 - 1 in their last 10 games. Its possible that some posters here are relying on stereotypes and/or dated info.

 

[NyQuil]

He really is the quintessential Ottawa player. Good production but never really a winning hockey player. Not sure why he was the one brought in to “teach them how to win” when they already extended a bunch of productive one-way forwards. A grittier, more two-way, proven winner with cup winning experience would have been the smarter play imo.

More two-way?

You really don’t know the player very well.

 

[TheDoldrums]

It took awhile before what Jacques Martin was teaching them sunk in and became routine. Around Jan. 13th is when that transition seemed to have occurred. Since then, their play & record has been better with a small lapse here & there. They are 8-5-4 since Jan. 13th taking 21 of 34 possible points. Its possible that some posters here are relying on stereotypes and/or dated info.

also possible some posters don't think a 17 game sample specifically chosen to be as favourable as possible after the season was already lost is very indicative of much.

 

[Tripod]

As a Flyers fan I can easily say he is worth the contract. Not sure people realize how bad the Flyers system was suppressing skill and his points.

As you saw once in Florida, he still has lots of skill and points to give.

Giroux will still be a 60+ point guy in 3 years.

Told ya.

 

[Spring in Fialta]

also possible some posters don't think a 17 game sample specifically chosen to be as favourable as possible after the season was already lost is very indicative of much.

The Sens do this every year. Get themselves way out of the playoffs, go on some little heater and start boasting again until they crash the next year. It's been like 3-4 years of this.

 

[UglyPuckling]

also possible some posters don't think a 17 game sample specifically chosen to be as favourable as possible after the season was already lost is very indicative of much.

I would generally agree with that but there is something that occurred that is well worth noting i.e., the change in coach. If I were a Toronto fan, I'd wonder about their record this year versus the Senators and whether they will be less inept in the playoffs for once.

 

[Leonardo87]

Hey Folks,

Please don’t bump up year old threads to troll someone. Thank you.