Dante Fabbro

Dante Fabbro
Date of birth	June 20, 1998
place of birth	Coquitlam , British Columbia , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2016 , 1st round, 17th position Nashville Predators
Career stations
2014	Langley Rivermen
2014-2016	Penticton Vees
2016-2019	Boston University
since 2019	Nashville Predators

Dante Fabbro (born June 20, 1998 in Coquitlam , British Columbia ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Nashville Predators in the National Hockey League since March 2019 and plays for them in the position of defender .

Career

Dante Fabbro played in his youth for the Burnaby Winter Club and for the Vancouver Northwest Giants in his homeland, the greater Vancouver area . After he had already played two games for the Langley Rivermen in the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL) towards the end of the 2013/14 season , he played regularly for the Penticton Vees in the BCHL from the beginning of the 2014/15 season . With the team, the defender won the playoffs for the Fred Page Cup in his first season , while he was personally elected to the league's all-rookie team . After the following year, in which he had recorded 67 scorer points from 45 games, he was included in the BCHL First All-Star Team and named the best defender. Then chose him Nashville Predators in the NHL Entry Draft in 2016 to 17th position.

As a result, Fabbro enrolled at Boston University and ran from then on for their ice hockey team, the Terriers , in Hockey East , a league in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). With the team he celebrated winning the championship in Hockey East in 2018, while this season and the following year he was elected to the Second All-Star Team . In addition, the Canadian led the Terriers as captain in his third and final season . Finally, he signed an entry-level contract with the Nashville Predators in March 2019 and made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) a little later . By the end of the season, the defender had played ten NHL games, including all six games in the first-round loss to the Dallas Stars in the 2019 Stanley Cup playoffs , before establishing himself in the Predators' squad from the 2019/20 season.

International

Fabbro gained his first international experience at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge in November 2014 , before winning the gold medal at the U18 level at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2015 . The defender took part in the U18 World Cup in 2016 at the same age , before he played for the U20 national team of his home country for the first time at the U20 World Cup in 2017 and won the silver medal with the team. In the following year, the team also made the final victorious and thus secured the gold medal at the U20 World Cup 2018 .

Fabbro made his debut for the senior national team of Canada at the Spengler Cup 2018 , in which the team lost to KalPa Kuopio in the final, but was personally elected to the all-star team of the tournament. A little later he was also part of the Canadian squad at the 2019 World Cup , but had to accept another defeat in the final, so that the team won the silver medal.

Achievements and Awards

2015 Fred Page Cup win with the Penticton Vees 2015 BCHL All-Rookie Team 2016 Best Defender of the BCHL 2016 BCHL First All-Star Team

2018 Hockey East Championship with Boston University 2018 Hockey East Second All-Star Team 2019 Hockey East Second All-Star Team

International

2015 gold medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2017 silver medal at the U20 World Cup 2018 gold medal at the U20 World Cup

2018 All-Star-Team of the Spengler Cup 2019 silver medal at the world championship

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2014/15	Penticton Vees	BCHL		44	4th	29	33		16		21st	4th	11	15th		10
2015/16	Penticton Vees	BCHL		45	14th	53	67		30th		11	0	8th	8th		2
2016/17	Boston University	NCAA		36	6th	12	18th	+6	16
2017/18	Boston University	NCAA		38	9	20th	29	+4	22nd
2018/19	Boston University	NCAA		38	7th	26th	33	-3	39
2018/19	Nashville Predators	NHL		4th	1	0	1	-1	0		6th	0	1	1	+2	0
2019/20	Nashville Predators	NHL		64	5	6th	11	–7	38		4th	0	0	0	-1	2
BCHL total				91	18th	82	100		46		32	4th	19th	23		12
NCAA overall				112	22nd	58	80	+7	77
NHL overall				68	6th	6th	12	-8th	38		10	0	1	1	+1	2

International

Represented Canada to:

World U-17 Hockey Challenge in November 2014 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2015 U18 World Championship 2016 U20 World Cup 2017

U20 World Cup 2018 Spengler Cup 2018 World Championship 2019

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2014	Canada Red	WHC	6th place		5	2	1	3		0
2015	Canada	Hlinka Memorial			4th	0	0	0	+2	0
2016	Canada	U18 World Cup	4th Place		7th	0	8th	8th	+5	16
2017	Canada	U20 World Cup			7th	0	1	1	+3	0
2018	Canada	U20 World Cup			7th	0	0	0	+1	0
2018	Canada	Spengler Cup	2nd place		4th	2	1	3	+3	0
2018	Canada	WM			9	1	2	3	+10	0
Juniors overall					38	3	15th	18th		20th
Men overall					13	3	3	6th	+13	0

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

• Player biography on the Nashville Predators website
• Dante Fabbro at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Predators Sign Dante Fabbro to Three-Year, Entry-Level Contract. nhl.com, March 27, 2019, accessed on June 22, 2019 .