Thomas Chabot

Last Season

Seven goals and 24 assists in 57 games — 31 points, plus-six, at 22:35 a night. Twenty-five games missed.

The Finesse Game

The skating is still the best part — he leaves the zone with the puck and can carry it through a neutral-zone trap without help.

Twenty-four assists in 57 games is a good rate. The shot is a point shot: 149 unblocked attempts from a median of 50 feet, seven goals.

Three hundred and thirty-five points in 569 games is a genuine offensive defenceman’s career, most of it produced on much worse teams than this one.

The Physical Game

Six foot one, 200, and he defends with feet rather than force. Twenty-two penalty minutes in 57 games.

The durability is the concern and has been for years: twenty-five games missed, and this is the fourth season in six he has failed to reach seventy.

The Intangibles

Fifty-four point three per cent of the expected goals, 84th percentile, and 52.5 per cent of the shot attempts, 78th, across a thousand minutes.

The goals went 34-29 in his favour.

Six points in his last ten. He is 29 and, on a blue line with Sanderson at the ninety-second percentile, Spence at the ninety-ninth and Zub playing the most minutes, he is now the fourth-most important defenceman on his own team. That is not a criticism of him.