{"id":785737,"date":"2026-07-07T23:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/785737\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T23:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:09:11","slug":"senators-agree-to-one-year-contract-with-claude-giroux-for-2026-27-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/785737\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators agree to one-year contract with Claude Giroux for 2026-27 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/senators.nhl.com\/index.html\" title=\"http:\/\/senators.nhl.com\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ottawa Senators<\/a>\u00a0general manager and president of hockey operations Steve Staios announced today the club has agreed to terms with forward Claude Giroux on a one-year contract for the 2026-27 NHL season. The contract carries a base salary of $2 million for next season with bonuses that could reach a maximum value of $5 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClaude took his time to evaluate his options and his decision to re-sign with us shows his belief and commitment to our group,\u201d said Staios. \u201cHe is the consummate professional and brings veteran experience to our core on and off the ice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI chose to come back because I want to be here. I\u2019m excited to be an Ottawa Senator,\u201d said Giroux. \u201cBeing around those guys for four years, we got really close. This team feels like a family. I just care for those players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Giroux, 38, played in all 82 games of the Senators&#8217; 2025\u201326 season. This marked the 10th time in his NHL career that he had not missed a single game in a season. Since joining the Sens at the start of the 2022-23 season, he has played in 327 of the team\u2019s 328 regular-season games and all 10 playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>Giroux was once again the NHL&#8217;s best player in the faceoff circles, with a 63.1% success rate. His 49 points placed him sixth on the team&#8217;s scoring leaderboard. His +20 plus-minus rating was the second-highest on the team, behind Artem Zub. He was the fourth-most-used forward on the penalty kill and the fifth-most-used on the power play.<\/p>\n<p>In 19 NHL seasons, Giroux has compiled 1,165 points \u2013 which ranks 60th\u00a0all-time amongst skaters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Visit the Senators website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawasenators.com\/\" title=\"http:\/\/www.ottawasenators.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.ottawasenators.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engage with\u00a0the Senators on X:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/senators\" title=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/senators\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Senators<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like the Senators on Facebook:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ottawasenators\" title=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ottawasenators\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.facebook.com\/ottawasenators<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow the Senators on Instagram:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/senators\" title=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/senators\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">senators<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; end &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ottawa Senators\u00a0general manager and president of hockey operations Steve Staios announced today the club has agreed to terms&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-785737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}