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No Giroux reunion as former Flyers captain returns to Senators There will be no Claude Giroux reunion in Philadelphia.
The former Flyers captain is returning to the Senators.
Flyers longtime captain Claude Giroux has been traded to the Panthers.
Relive his best moments with the orange and black.
The former longtime Flyers captain agreed to terms with the Senators on a one-year contract that has a $2 million cap hit.
With bonuses, the deal could reach $5 million in value.
Perreported last Wednesday, the first day of free agency, that the Flyers were expected to be among the suitors for Giroux.
Last Friday,After spending the last four seasons in Ottawa, Giroux will be staying there.."Being around those guys for four years, we got really close.
This team feels like a family.
I just care for those players." If Giroux had returned to Philadelphia, it would have been the next big piece of news in a busy stretch of the Flyers' offseason.
The club last Friday tendered, bringing an end to his 15-year tenure in Philadelphia.
Giroux went to the Panthers for 18 games and a playoff run before signing with the Senators.
At 38 years old, he has still been his durable and effective self.He has sat for just one game in his time with Ottawa, a team that has made the playoffs the last two seasons.
Giroux, who turns 39 years old in January, is coming off a 49-point season.
He had 14 goals, 35 assists and a plus-20 rating for a Senators team that went 44-27-11.
His minutes were down to 16:18 per game, his lowest since his true rookie season in 2008-09.He made his NHL debut the season prior as a 20-year-old and with Danny Briere as his teammate.
Despite a downtick in scoring and ice time last season, Giroux led the NHL in faceoff win percentage at 63.1.
The Flyers would have liked his right-handed prowess in the dot.
They believe.The Flyers also could have used Giroux's power play smarts.
The club has owned the NHL's worst power play over the last five seasons combined at 14.1 percent.
But how would Giroux have fit back in from a leadership standpoint? Would there have been any awkwardness with the locker room dynamic?The Flyers' leadership group of captain Sean Couturier and alternate captains Travis Konecny and Travis Sanheim really came into its own last season, especially during the team's playoff run.
Those three players once looked up to Giroux, but now their former captain would have been taking a backseat.Couturier, Konecny and Sanheim probably would have had no problem reintegrating Giroux, but it's fair to wonder if this could have thrown things off a little bit for a locker room that molded well last season."There was a number of guys that really brought me in and showed me the way, G definitely being one of the head guys in that,".
"I always tell him, I credit a lot of my career so far to him.
A lot of those seasons where I had success was from playing with G.
Obviously I can't repay him for that but I'm always thankful for what he's done for me." Giroux ranks second on the Flyers' all-time leaderboards in games played , points and assists , behind only Hall of Famer and franchise icon Bob Clarke.
"When I got to figure it out and understanding the fans, how they are; I've said it before, they're absolutely nuts their passion, how they want to win.
You have to respect the way they think, the way they act.
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