Claude Giroux: "Reasons to be Cheerful Part III"

[Rebels57]

He has ****ed himself over, had he been more selective in the first place he might still be getting semi decent movies, but no one really wants to cast him anymore for higher budget stuff because his name might be more of a detriment now.

If he dissapeared for like 8 years he could probably pull of a return to prominence

 

[baudib1]

Giroux ties career high with 93 points. 27 goals, 1 short of career high. Needs a few multi-point games to hit 100.

 

[Curufinwe]

Today was his first OT point since 1/22/17, but he had not been on the ice for a goal against in that time which covered 25 OT appearances.

 

[Rebels57]

29 goals
95 points
79 games

Unreal

 

[Rebels57]

30 goals 100 points would be superb. It would be one of the best seasons by a Flyers forward ever.

 

[The Rage Kage]

30 goals 100 points would be superb. It would be one of the best seasons by a Flyers forward ever.

Its useless thinking about it but its really too bad he got injured in 2011-12, he could have been looking at two 100 point seasons, which would be pretty incredible for his career.

I just hope he can get there this year.

 

[Rebels57]

Its useless thinking about it but its really too bad he got injured in 2011-12, he could have been looking at two 100 point seasons, which would be pretty incredible for his career.

I just hope he can get there this year.

Safe bet he would have hit 100 with 5 more games in 11-12

 

[Laveuglette]

We play weak opponents in the remaining 3, I think he'll get it.

 

[Rebels57]

We play weak opponents in the remaining 3, I think he'll get it.

Being must-win games until they clinch helps. Cant let up.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Peggy Sue Got Married, Raising Arizona, Moonstruck, Leaving Las Vegas, Red Rock West, Wild at Heart, Adaptation (plays twins!), Bringing Out the Dead, Matchstick Men, Bad Lieutenant, so on......

The Nic Cage of this decade is a caricature who acts in cheap fast food slop to get paychecks. Though he is still reasonably entertaining in the dreck. But the man is/was a terrific and offbeat character actor and has definitely been in a lot of artful, more delicate and thoughtful movies, like the above, before he cariacatured himself. Directors like Coens, Lynch, Scorsese, Herzog, Kaufman, Ridley Scott, etc. He’d balance it out with fun action movies, which were sometimes solid if B-movie variety, but he has an underrated filmography with great performances. Highly recommend people watch a handful of those too.

Vampires Kiss

 

[pit]

Safe bet he would have hit 100 with 5 more games in 11-12

Safe bet he's over 100 this year if he was consistently out to close a game when leading and picked up some EN action.

 

[baudib1]

A nice 4-point night vs. the Isles would be sweet.

 

[The Rage Kage]

He has 5 points against NYI, 6 against NYR, and 1 against CAR, 3 games against each.

 

[baudib1]

Looking at it, this season by Giroux is almost certainly better than Recchi's 123-point season. Rex did have 53 goals, but he was only 10th in the league in scoring, 37 behind Lemieux. 14 players had 50 goals in 1992-93, including Selanne (a rookie) and Mogilny with 76. Teams averaged 3.63 goals per game that year compared to 2.98 this year.

Giroux is tied for 3rd (8 behind McDavid) and leads the league in assists.

 

[StoneHands]

This is probably the best season I've seen from a Flyer forward since Lindros and LeClair both had ridiculous seasons in '97 on the way to their Cup run. League scoring was about the same that year and while Lindros was probably better that season than Giroux has been, there's something to be said about staying healthy for an entire season which Lindros did not. LeClair scored 50 that year (2 back from Tkachuk) and put up 97 points which was good for 4th in the NHL. It's been a fun ride and I'm glad G has shut up the haters.

 

[baudib1]

I'd take Giroux over LeClair any day of the week and 3 times on Sundays.

 

[Flukeshot]

This is definitely the most I have cheered for an individual Flyer's results. Mostly because it seems like the average (non-Flyers) fan had written him off.

100pts would be fantastic. Even better if he could do it and finish 2nd or 3rd overall.

 

[StoneHands]

I'd take Giroux over LeClair any day of the week and 3 times on Sundays.

And I would take Lindros over Giroux but that wasn't the point of my post. I was simply comparing the quality of their seasons.

 

[StoneHands]

This is definitely the most I have cheered for an individual Flyer's results. Mostly because it seems like the average (non-Flyers) fan had written him off.

100pts would be fantastic. Even better if he could do it and finish 2nd or 3rd overall.

I'm personally rooting more for him to hit 30 goals than 100 points. I'm tired of hearing about how he's never hit 30 and I actually do think it would hurt his chances at the HoF. 100 points would be incredible though considering how rare that feat has been over the last decade or so.

 

[Strawberry Fields]

Should've traded him last year like the Authentic Fans on Facebook wanted

 

[Starat327]

Should've traded him last year like the Authentic Fans on Facebook wanted

If we add a second, we might be able to get Galchenyuk on HF.

 

[PK16]

If we add a second, we might be able to get Galchenyuk on HF.

This was one of my favorite delusional Habs fans suggestion on the Trade Boards over the Summer. They really thought G was a cap dump and that we would be lucky to get Galchenyuk for him. Good times!

 

[Starat327]

This was one of my favorite delusional Habs fans suggestion on the Trade Boards over the Summer. They really thought G was a cap dump and that we would be lucky to get Galchenyuk for him. Good times!

Yeah, this summer was a doozy for the HF Habs fans.

 

[PK16]

Yeah, this summer was a doozy for the HF Habs fans.

I miss it already.

 

[Pinball Wizard]

Stephen Burtch
@SteveBurtch
Here is my serious analysis of what changed for Giroux this season - he moved to W and Couturier moved onto his line and he magically produced the best defensive results of his career. Weird that when the regular Selke candidate becomes your C your defense improves.


Stephen Burtch @SteveBurtch
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Suddenly he had massive help defending (which he was increasingly ineffective at) as a top line C... Voila...he looked good again.