Ray Giroux

Raymond Giroux ( born July 20, 1976 in North Bay, Ontario ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is since June 2013 at the Metallurg Novokuznetsk in the Kontinental Hockey League contract.

Career

Giroux began his career in 1994 at Yale University, where he played in the ECAC Hockey, one of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division. In his debut year, he was drafted by the Philadelphia Flyers in the NHL Entry Draft in the eighth round in a total of 202 point. After a total of four seasons in the jersey of Yale, where he received numerous nominations in selecting teams, in 1998 the change in the American Hockey League. There he ran for Lowell Lock Monsters, where in 2000 he was invited for the first time the top scoring defender and the AHL All- Star Classic in the first year. During the two seasons of the links Sagittarius was also 14 - times for the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League on the ice, scoring nine assists. This had signed him in the summer of 1998 for a draft election law of the Flyers.

In the 2000 /01 season Giroux moved to Europe, first to HIFK Helsinki to return via the AIK back to Finland for Jokerit Helsinki. After that year, he returned to North America and signed there between 2001 and 2005, among others in the Bridgeport Sound Tigers, Albany River Rats and Houston Aeros at. During this time, the Canadians received two more invitations to the AHL All- Star Classic and a nomination for the First All -Star Team in the AHL.

2005 undertook the Ak Bars Kazan of the Russian Super League defender. With Giroux Kazan celebrated many successes. In his first year the team was able to win the Russian championship. The championship win resulted in the participation in the IIHF European Champions Cup in 2007, the Kazan also won. Only a year later, the Russians could also IIHF Continental Cup win. The Canadians remained until the summer of 2008 in Kazan, before he accepted an offer from the SKA Saint Petersburg. In the game year 2008/ 09 he was one of the best defenders the league and thus stood in the starting lineup of the World XI in the first All-Star Game of the newly formed Kontinental Hockey League. In October 2010 he transferred within the KHL for HC Traktor Chelyabinsk, for whom he played until 2012. In July 2012, his running contract was terminated at HK tractor. After he finished five games for HC Ambri -Piotta in the National League A in the spring of 2013, Giroux was committed in June 2013 Metallurg Novokuznetsk of the Kontinental Hockey League.

Awards and achievements

  • 2003 AHL All- Star Classic
  • 2003 AHL First All -Star Team
  • 2006 Russian champion Ak Bars Kazan with
  • 2007 IIHF European Champions Cup win with Ak Bars Kazan
  • 2008 IIHF Continental Cup win with Ak Bars Kazan
  • 2009 KHL All-Star Game
1994 NHL Entry Draft Lowell Devils Houston Aeros (1994–2013) 2000–01 SM-liiga season 2008–09 KHL season Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game 2013–14 KHL season Mikhail Chernov Kurtis McLean Igor Velichkin Nikita Vyglazov German Titov (ice hockey)
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