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Thomas Chabot
Ottawa Senators Defense
Twenty-three minutes a night and 197 career assists, from a man who has reached seventy games twice in seven seasons.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | OTT | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 7:09 |
| 2017-18 | OTT | 63 | 9 | 16 | 25 | -12 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 94 | 9.6 | 17:31 |
| 2018-19 | OTT | 70 | 14 | 41 | 55 | -12 | 32 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 185 | 7.6 | 24:17 |
| 2019-20 | OTT | 71 | 6 | 33 | 39 | -18 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 186 | 3.2 | 26:00 |
| 2020-21 | OTT | 49 | 6 | 25 | 31 | -15 | 36 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 120 | 5.0 | 26:17 |
| 2021-22 | OTT | 59 | 7 | 31 | 38 | -3 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 173 | 4.0 | 26:12 |
| 2022-23 | OTT | 68 | 11 | 30 | 41 | -11 | 52 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 165 | 6.7 | 24:58 |
| 2023-24 | OTT | 51 | 9 | 21 | 30 | -3 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 118 | 7.6 | 23:03 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 432 | 62 | 197 | 259 | -76 | 224 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 1042 | 5.9 | 23:59 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
51 games, 9 goals and 21 assists for 30 points, 1 on the power play, 22 penalty minutes, 23:03 a night and minus-3. He took 51.3 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 972 minutes, the 62nd percentile, and his ice went 47-53 against an expectation of 42.87-40.72.
Four goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and twelve more conceded than they called for. Fifty-one games is the fewest he has played in a full season.
The Finesse Game
157 attempts at a median of 47 feet with 66 per cent of them from beyond forty, 118 of those on goal, converted at 7.6 per cent against a career 5.95 across 1,042 shots.
197 career assists in 432 games. He is the best skater on this blue line and the one man who can carry a puck the length of the ice when the breakout has broken down. Nine career power-play goals from a defenceman who has run a point for eight seasons is a thin return.
The Physical Game
He is 6-1 and 200 and took 22 penalty minutes.
224 career penalty minutes in 432 games. He defends by skating rather than by contact, does not clear his crease and is moved off pucks below the goal line. At twenty-three minutes a night against the other club’s best that is the part of the game that has never been solved.
The Intangibles
Eighteenth overall in 2015, eight seasons, 259 points in 432 games and a career minus-76.
He has played 26:17 a night in a season and 23:03 in this one, and has reached seventy games twice in seven seasons. The talent has never been the question.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 972 minutes
- Expected goals
- 51.3%
- 63rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 52.6%
- 76th pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 47 for, 53 against. Expected: 42.9 and 40.7.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 6 points of one another. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason.
Both bars are percentiles among the 437 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 67 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.
Usual linemates
2023-24 · 972 minutes at five-on-five
- Jakob Chychrunnow WSH36%
- Erik Brannstromnow VAN25%
Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.
Why the numbers land there
Five-on-five, 2023-24
- The club
- OTT took 49.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.3% — 2.1 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 972 minutes at five-on-five — 54th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jakob Chychrun | 55.7% | 48.6% | 45.1% |
| Brady Tkachuk | 57.0% | 47.8% | 54.6% |
| Drake Batherson | 50.5% | 51.7% | 47.9% |
55.7% together, 48.6% for him apart and 45.1% for Chychrun apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
157 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 9 of them goals. His median goal came from 27 feet. 10% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 66% from beyond forty.