Claude Giroux is easily the most famous native of Hearst, Ontario, a small town of roughly 5,000 in the northern reaches of the Canadian province.
The town has a new junior hockey team starting next season, the Hearst Lumberjacks. They’ll play in the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League, a Junior A level league. A few weeks ago, the Lumberjacks released their logo and uniforms, and I’m not sure how we missed this until now but ... they honor Giroux in basically every possible way.
The big red beard.