{"id":584331,"date":"2026-05-26T21:24:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/584331\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T21:24:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:24:51","slug":"claude-giroux-to-continue-playing-for-2026-27-season-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/584331\/","title":{"rendered":"Claude Giroux To Continue Playing For 2026-27 Season \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran scorer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/giroucl01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-26_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Claude Giroux<\/a> will not hang up his skates for at least one more season, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7307924\/2026\/05\/26\/nhl-rumblings-hischier-byram-coaching-cassidy\/?source=emp_shared_article&amp;unlocked_article_code=1.lVA.6N5n.0EwzfQYkybGY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reports Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic<\/a>. According to LeBrun, Giroux \u201cneeded some time after the season to mull over his future\u201d as he was considering retirement, but now the 38-year-old \u201chas decided he wants to come back and play another season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Giroux\u2019s decision means a 1,345-game NHL career that began in 2007-08 will continue for at least one more campaign. Complicating Giroux\u2019s situation is the fact that he is a pending unrestricted free agent. Giroux has been playing for his hometown Ottawa Senators since 2022, arriving there from the Florida Panthers. Giroux was on the Panthers as a rental trade addition. Before that, he was a top scorer and face-of-the-franchise player for the Philadelphia Flyers.<\/p>\n<p>One of the greatest Flyers in the franchise\u2019s modern history, Giroux is no longer the star scorer he once was. At 38 years old, that\u2019s to be expected. But he has shown himself to still be a productive scoring winger for the Senators even as he\u2019s aged. In 2025-26, he scored 14 goals and 49 points. That\u2019s not quite at the level of his debut season in the Canadian capital (35 goals, 79 points in 2022-23) but still more than strong enough to make him worth his cap hit of $2MM. (Base cap hit, he also earned $1MM in performance bonuses)<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead to next season, it seems overwhelmingly likely that Giroux will remain in Ottawa. Another one-year contract with a relatively low base salary and stocked full of performance bonuses, similar to the contract he played last season on, seems most appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Playing at least one more year, Giroux will be able to help the Senators try to win their first playoff series since their run to the Eastern Conference Final in 2017. He\u2019ll also be chasing some individual milestones, like 1,400 games played, 400 goals, and 1,200 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran scorer Claude Giroux will not hang up his skates for at least one more season, reports Pierre&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5104],"tags":[1325,5,4,72,25,5157,2547,73],"class_list":["post-584331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa-senators","tag-claude-giroux","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-senators","tag-ottawasenators","tag-retirement","tag-senators"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116642992847561895","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}