- Giroux signs a one-year deal to return to Philadelphia, the team that drafted him and made him captain
- The 38-year-old played exactly 1,000 games and 15 seasons as a Flyer before the 2022 trade to Florida
- Read below for the details on Giroux’s homecoming and what he brings back to Philly
Claude Giroux is going home.
The 38-year-old center is signing a one-year deal with the Philadelphia Flyers, the club that drafted him and handed him the captaincy, David Pagnotta of The Fourth Period reported Friday. It caps a run of speculation that had Giroux headed back to Ottawa right up until the market opened.
Philadelphia took Giroux 22nd overall in 2006 and watched him grow into the face of the franchise. He wore the “C” from January 2013 until the Flyers dealt him to Florida in March 2022.
The resume speaks for itself. Giroux played exactly 1,000 regular-season games in a Flyers sweater and racked up roughly 900 points, second on the franchise’s all-time scoring list behind only Bobby Clarke. He also pushed Philadelphia to the 2010 Stanley Cup Final.
Then came three-plus years in Ottawa. Giroux posted a 79-point season next to Tim Stutzle and Brady Tkachuk in his first year with the Senators before settling into a veteran role. When talks about staying stalled this summer, he chose to hit the open market instead.
Now he lands back in orange for 2026-27. Philadelphia had a loud Friday, tendering an offer sheet to Anaheim’s Leo Carlsson minutes earlier, but bringing Giroux back is the move that will land hardest with the fan base.
Take a look back at the plays that made Giroux a Philadelphia favorite:
Giroux turns 39 in January, so nobody in Philadelphia expects the 100-point version from 2017-18. What the Flyers are getting is a faceoff-winning power-play veteran who still knows what the sweater means. For a captain who never got his Cup here, the last chapter starts where the first one did.
