The Flyers and forward Claude Giroux have agreed on a three-year, $11.25 million extension, Comcast SportsNet has learned.
Hockey salary site CapGeek.com reports the deal breaks down into salaries of $2.75 million for 2011-12, $3.5 million for 2012-13 and $5 million in 2013-14. The 22-year-old Giroux will earn just $765,000 this season, the final year of his entry-level contract.
Giroux would have been a restricted free agent at the end of this season.
Just beginning to make a name for himself as a playmaking forward, Giroux was first reported to have been nearing an extension deal with the Flyers earlier this week by the Ottawa Sun.
Fifteen games into the season, Giroux leads the Flyers with 14 points (seven goals). Last season, he had 47 points in 82 regular season games, and built upon it with a stellar postseason performance, notching 21 points (10 goals) during the Flyers’ Stanley Cup run
A Hearst, Ontario, native, Giroux was selected 22nd overall by the Flyers in the 2006 NHL draft.
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What We Learned: The truth about ESPN's pursuit of NHL TV rights
By Ryan Lambert
A Mediaweek report came out this weekend claiming that ESPN is prepared to launch a large-scale bid for the NHL's TV rights, in the near future.
There are two schools of thought on the matter.
The first, likely to come from loyalists and alarmists alike, is that The Worldwide Leader in Sports wants to take on the league's TV deal almost cynically. That even if it had the NHL Game of the Week or brought back NHL 2 Night, it would do so in such a way that it continued to relegate the league to the third- or fourth-rate status it currently does. That it would continue to laugh up its sleeves at us poor, stupid hockey fans that don't like a real sport.
That notion is at once understandable and, of course, incredibly stupid.
ESPN is a television network run by people who more or less decide the national sports conversation. If it were to pick up the rights to the NHL, it would be doing so having invested what is likely to be hundreds of millions of dollars, particularly if there's a bidding war between it and Versus.
Not that the timidity isn't understandable. ESPN dropped the NHL's rights at a time when they could be had for a relative song, badmouthing it and denigrating it every step of the way even before the lockout. As a result, Gary Bettman basically went to Versus hat in hand and took whatever deal they offered him. But hockey fans have a long memory, and good businessmen do not.
It would be remarkably foolish for both ESPN and the NHL to sit around and remember what the hell was going on in 2005. The League is far, far different now than it was in those days. So too is the network.
It's not that Bettman will completely ignore the treatment the League received in the dying days of its old rights contract, but he's not going to let that get in the way of a potentially lucrative deal.
He serves at the pleasure of the 30 owners and, whatever you may personally think of the way he's handled things, he's been a pitbull for them. What they've wanted, he's gotten. More teams in the 1990s meant more expansion fees, a salary cap meant guaranteed profits, and a new TV deal will almost certainly mean far bigger revenues than the franchises receives under the current deal. The various decisions he's made can be seen a lot of ways, but "bad for business" sure as hell isn't one of 'em.
And that brings us to the second school of thought on the potential ESPN deal: the pragmatic one.
Even if it is ESPN hedging its bets on either an NBA or NFL work stoppage, or both, next winter, it behooves the network to promote something it just laid out a couple Kovalchuk contracts' worth of money. Hell, it probably paid next to nothing for the Major League Soccer deal, and there's MLS Game of the Week every Wednesday, and usually a game or two on the weekends as well.
But more than that, ESPN is attuned to the pulse of the sports world, for obvious reasons. It got the MLS contract as soccer really started to get big, and has since gotten Premier League, La Liga, UEFA and World Cup contracts, and done well at presenting all of them. Why, it's almost as though the network saw a sport growing in popularity and then did its best to promote the sport because it had a financial interest in doing so! What a business decision.
Perhaps people don't remember when ESPN first had the NHL broadcast rights. It showed the 2004 World Cup of Hockey when it clearly didn't have to. It showed regular hockey programming throughout the week. Hell, it showed Pro Beach Hockey. So let's not act like ESPN didn't have a vested interest in hockey's success until the lockout torpedoed everything.
This is always going to be a divisive issue, but if the only real choices are between ESPN and Versus, the NHL is choosing between loyalty and continued obscurity, or openness to new ideas and greater exposure to a sports audience that will continue to think that "hoc-key?" joke is funny until ESPN tells them not to.
In the end, Bettman is going to choose what's best for the league. What you think that means to him is another story entirely.
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The ONLY thing better than a glass of beer is tea with Miss McGill
A protuberance of flesh above the waistband of a tight pair of trousers
the giroux extension is great. Would have liked to see more years, but I guess I can't complain.
the NHL should go back to ESPN for free. the broadcasts on VS are awful
Are you really complaining that a 3-year contract wasn't long enough? :?
I'm looking forward once again to hearing Gary Thorne not pay any attention to the game and all of a sudden yell out "SCORE!!!".
Spectrum 10/27/09; New Orleans JazzFest 5/1/10; Made in America 9/2/12; WF Center 10/21/13; WF Center 10/22/13; Baltimore 10/27/13; WF Center 4/28/16; WF Center 4/29/16; Fenway Park 8/7/16; Fenway Park 9/2/18; Asbury Park 9/18/21; Camden 9/14/22; Las Vegas 5/16/24; Las Vegas 5/18/24; WF Center 9/7/24; WF Center 9/9/24; Baltimore Arena 9/12/24
Tres Mtns - TLA 3/23/11; EV - Tower Theatre 6/25/11; Temple of the Dog - Tower Theatre 11/5/16
I'm changing the name-plate on my BOB Froese Jersey as we speak
It would be absolutely hilarious if anybody actually had a Bob Froese jersey. Good hockey name, however.
Spectrum 10/27/09; New Orleans JazzFest 5/1/10; Made in America 9/2/12; WF Center 10/21/13; WF Center 10/22/13; Baltimore 10/27/13; WF Center 4/28/16; WF Center 4/29/16; Fenway Park 8/7/16; Fenway Park 9/2/18; Asbury Park 9/18/21; Camden 9/14/22; Las Vegas 5/16/24; Las Vegas 5/18/24; WF Center 9/7/24; WF Center 9/9/24; Baltimore Arena 9/12/24
Tres Mtns - TLA 3/23/11; EV - Tower Theatre 6/25/11; Temple of the Dog - Tower Theatre 11/5/16
Flyers looking real good so far, up 4-0 against Carolina :thumbup:
8/28/98- Camden, NJ
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
4/28/16- Philly, PA
4/29/16- Philly, PA
5/1/16- NYC
5/2/16- NYC
9/2/18- Boston, MA
9/4/18- Boston, MA
9/14/22- Camden, NJ
9/7/24- Philly, PA
9/9/24- Philly, PA
Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
Flyers looking real good so far, up 4-0 against Carolina :thumbup:
ok this a laugher
8/28/98- Camden, NJ
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
4/28/16- Philly, PA
4/29/16- Philly, PA
5/1/16- NYC
5/2/16- NYC
9/2/18- Boston, MA
9/4/18- Boston, MA
9/14/22- Camden, NJ
9/7/24- Philly, PA
9/9/24- Philly, PA
Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
Comments
Good game today but you simply lost to a better team. Your boys should really learn how to control their sticks. That's all for now.
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http://www.csnphilly.com/11/08/10/Flyer ... feedID=704
Flyers, Giroux Agree to Three-Year Extension
By all indications, Claude Giroux is in the midst of a breakout season, tallying 14 points in 15 games this season. (Getty Images)
Monday, November 8, 2010
Posted: 6:48 p.m. | Updated: 7:09 p.m.
By Sarah Baicker
CSNPhilly.com
The Flyers and forward Claude Giroux have agreed on a three-year, $11.25 million extension, Comcast SportsNet has learned.
Hockey salary site CapGeek.com reports the deal breaks down into salaries of $2.75 million for 2011-12, $3.5 million for 2012-13 and $5 million in 2013-14. The 22-year-old Giroux will earn just $765,000 this season, the final year of his entry-level contract.
Giroux would have been a restricted free agent at the end of this season.
Just beginning to make a name for himself as a playmaking forward, Giroux was first reported to have been nearing an extension deal with the Flyers earlier this week by the Ottawa Sun.
Fifteen games into the season, Giroux leads the Flyers with 14 points (seven goals). Last season, he had 47 points in 82 regular season games, and built upon it with a stellar postseason performance, notching 21 points (10 goals) during the Flyers’ Stanley Cup run
A Hearst, Ontario, native, Giroux was selected 22nd overall by the Flyers in the 2006 NHL draft.
The ONLY thing better than a glass of beer is tea with Miss McGill
A protuberance of flesh above the waistband of a tight pair of trousers
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_d ... nhl-283325
What We Learned: The truth about ESPN's pursuit of NHL TV rights
By Ryan Lambert
A Mediaweek report came out this weekend claiming that ESPN is prepared to launch a large-scale bid for the NHL's TV rights, in the near future.
There are two schools of thought on the matter.
The first, likely to come from loyalists and alarmists alike, is that The Worldwide Leader in Sports wants to take on the league's TV deal almost cynically. That even if it had the NHL Game of the Week or brought back NHL 2 Night, it would do so in such a way that it continued to relegate the league to the third- or fourth-rate status it currently does. That it would continue to laugh up its sleeves at us poor, stupid hockey fans that don't like a real sport.
That notion is at once understandable and, of course, incredibly stupid.
ESPN is a television network run by people who more or less decide the national sports conversation. If it were to pick up the rights to the NHL, it would be doing so having invested what is likely to be hundreds of millions of dollars, particularly if there's a bidding war between it and Versus.
Not that the timidity isn't understandable. ESPN dropped the NHL's rights at a time when they could be had for a relative song, badmouthing it and denigrating it every step of the way even before the lockout. As a result, Gary Bettman basically went to Versus hat in hand and took whatever deal they offered him. But hockey fans have a long memory, and good businessmen do not.
It would be remarkably foolish for both ESPN and the NHL to sit around and remember what the hell was going on in 2005. The League is far, far different now than it was in those days. So too is the network.
It's not that Bettman will completely ignore the treatment the League received in the dying days of its old rights contract, but he's not going to let that get in the way of a potentially lucrative deal.
He serves at the pleasure of the 30 owners and, whatever you may personally think of the way he's handled things, he's been a pitbull for them. What they've wanted, he's gotten. More teams in the 1990s meant more expansion fees, a salary cap meant guaranteed profits, and a new TV deal will almost certainly mean far bigger revenues than the franchises receives under the current deal. The various decisions he's made can be seen a lot of ways, but "bad for business" sure as hell isn't one of 'em.
And that brings us to the second school of thought on the potential ESPN deal: the pragmatic one.
Even if it is ESPN hedging its bets on either an NBA or NFL work stoppage, or both, next winter, it behooves the network to promote something it just laid out a couple Kovalchuk contracts' worth of money. Hell, it probably paid next to nothing for the Major League Soccer deal, and there's MLS Game of the Week every Wednesday, and usually a game or two on the weekends as well.
But more than that, ESPN is attuned to the pulse of the sports world, for obvious reasons. It got the MLS contract as soccer really started to get big, and has since gotten Premier League, La Liga, UEFA and World Cup contracts, and done well at presenting all of them. Why, it's almost as though the network saw a sport growing in popularity and then did its best to promote the sport because it had a financial interest in doing so! What a business decision.
Perhaps people don't remember when ESPN first had the NHL broadcast rights. It showed the 2004 World Cup of Hockey when it clearly didn't have to. It showed regular hockey programming throughout the week. Hell, it showed Pro Beach Hockey. So let's not act like ESPN didn't have a vested interest in hockey's success until the lockout torpedoed everything.
This is always going to be a divisive issue, but if the only real choices are between ESPN and Versus, the NHL is choosing between loyalty and continued obscurity, or openness to new ideas and greater exposure to a sports audience that will continue to think that "hoc-key?" joke is funny until ESPN tells them not to.
In the end, Bettman is going to choose what's best for the league. What you think that means to him is another story entirely.
The ONLY thing better than a glass of beer is tea with Miss McGill
A protuberance of flesh above the waistband of a tight pair of trousers
the NHL should go back to ESPN for free. the broadcasts on VS are awful
Are you really complaining that a 3-year contract wasn't long enough? :?
I'm looking forward once again to hearing Gary Thorne not pay any attention to the game and all of a sudden yell out "SCORE!!!".
WF Center 4/28/16; WF Center 4/29/16; Fenway Park 8/7/16; Fenway Park 9/2/18; Asbury Park 9/18/21; Camden 9/14/22;
Las Vegas 5/16/24; Las Vegas 5/18/24; WF Center 9/7/24; WF Center 9/9/24; Baltimore Arena 9/12/24
Tres Mtns - TLA 3/23/11; EV - Tower Theatre 6/25/11; Temple of the Dog - Tower Theatre 11/5/16
he's only 21 or 22. yes, I would have liked to see something longer. that's what she said
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_d ... nhl-284134
The ONLY thing better than a glass of beer is tea with Miss McGill
A protuberance of flesh above the waistband of a tight pair of trousers
Shall I order you guys some dental dams as well?
I'm changing the name-plate on my BOB Froese Jersey as we speak
The ONLY thing better than a glass of beer is tea with Miss McGill
A protuberance of flesh above the waistband of a tight pair of trousers
looking at jersey's....authentics are so over priced. with a name and number they are almost $400. that's just stupid.
even the replica's with name/number are 170.
sigh.
It would be absolutely hilarious if anybody actually had a Bob Froese jersey.
WF Center 4/28/16; WF Center 4/29/16; Fenway Park 8/7/16; Fenway Park 9/2/18; Asbury Park 9/18/21; Camden 9/14/22;
Las Vegas 5/16/24; Las Vegas 5/18/24; WF Center 9/7/24; WF Center 9/9/24; Baltimore Arena 9/12/24
Tres Mtns - TLA 3/23/11; EV - Tower Theatre 6/25/11; Temple of the Dog - Tower Theatre 11/5/16
EDIT: Say what?
If anyone is working like myself...you can watch live here
http://atdhe.net/index.html
The ONLY thing better than a glass of beer is tea with Miss McGill
A protuberance of flesh above the waistband of a tight pair of trousers
Wow...I was 10 years old
http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/fly ... crash.html
I didn't know that part about Tocchet
:shock:
The ONLY thing better than a glass of beer is tea with Miss McGill
A protuberance of flesh above the waistband of a tight pair of trousers
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
4/28/16- Philly, PA
4/29/16- Philly, PA
5/1/16- NYC
5/2/16- NYC
9/2/18- Boston, MA
9/4/18- Boston, MA
9/14/22- Camden, NJ
9/7/24- Philly, PA
9/9/24- Philly, PA
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
This link would have saved you a lot of money
http://atdhe.net/index.html
The ONLY thing better than a glass of beer is tea with Miss McGill
A protuberance of flesh above the waistband of a tight pair of trousers
ok this a laugher
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
4/28/16- Philly, PA
4/29/16- Philly, PA
5/1/16- NYC
5/2/16- NYC
9/2/18- Boston, MA
9/4/18- Boston, MA
9/14/22- Camden, NJ
9/7/24- Philly, PA
9/9/24- Philly, PA
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
Yep...7 in a row against the Canes ?
The ONLY thing better than a glass of beer is tea with Miss McGill
A protuberance of flesh above the waistband of a tight pair of trousers
Tearing it up tonight.
The cheerleaders are a nice touch. Blond on the left is yummy