Claude Giroux
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"Claude Giroux" is a Canada/Canadian professional ice hockey Centre (ice hockey)/centre and Captain (ice hockey)/captain of the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Flyers selected Giroux 22nd overall in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft.

Prior to playing in the NHL, Giroux played his Major junior#Major junior/major junior career with the Gatineau Olympiques of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL), where he helped win a 2008 President's Cup (QMJHL)/President's Cup and earned the Guy Lafleur Trophy as the 2008 playoff MVP. Internationally, he won a gold medal with Hockey Canada/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. He was named the captain of the Flyers at the start of the 2012–13 NHL season/2012–13 season.

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I didn't even think about it. To me, it was something that wasn't even possible. Knowing now that I might get drafted is just unbelievable.

It was such an exciting game and I wanted to win so bad. Everybody worked so hard. Everybody wanted to win that. We played like we did all year, and it turned out well.