Thomas Chabot

Thomas Chabot
Date of birth	January 30, 1997
place of birth	Sainte-Marie , Quebec , Canada
size	188 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	defender
number	# 72
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2015 , 1st round, 18th position Ottawa Senators
Career stations
2013-2017	Saint John Sea Dogs
since 2017	Ottawa Senators

Thomas Chabot (born January 30, 1997 in Sainte-Marie , Québec ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Ottawa Senators from the National Hockey League since September 2016 and plays for them in the position of defender .

Career

Chabot first played for various youth teams in the province of Québec , before joining the Saint John Sea Dogs in the summer of 2013 via the entry draft of the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec . There the defender played for three years and was selected during this time in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft in 18th overall position by the Ottawa Senators from the National Hockey League .

On September 30, 2016, the defender finally signed a three-year NHL entry contract with the Senators. Thanks to his good performance in the pre-season training camp, he earned a place in the Ottawa squad at the beginning of the 2016/17 season and finally celebrated his competitive debut on October 18, 2016. After this one NHL mission, however, the Senators sent him back to the Sea Dogs in the LHJMQ in early November to allow the defender to continue playing. There he won the championship of the LHJMQ and thus the Coupe du Président at the end of the season , where he led the league in the plus / minus statistics (+29) and all defenders in points (23) in the playoffs and subsequently with the Trophée Guy Lafleur was recognized as the most valuable player of the post-season . In addition, he was honored with the Trophée Émile Bouchard as best defender, with the Trophée Paul Dumont as Personality of the Year and with the inclusion in the LHJMQ First All-Star Team. A little later he was also named CHL Defender of the Year by the Canadian Hockey League , the umbrella organization for the three major Canadian junior leagues .

At the beginning of the 2017/18 season, Chabot was mainly used for the Senators in the NHL, parallel to a few missions for their farm team in the American Hockey League (AHL), the Belleville Senators . At the beginning of the 2018/19 season he finally established himself in the NHL and, with 55 scorer points, became by far the strongest defensive player in the team. As a result, he received a new eight-year contract in Ottawa in September 2019, which should bring him an average annual salary of eight million US dollars from the start of the 2020/21 season.

International

Chabot represented his home country at the U18 World Junior Championships in 2015 and the U20 World Junior Championships in 2016 and 2017 . He won the bronze medal at the U18 Junior World Championship and silver at the 2017 U20 Junior World Championship. He was also named the tournament's most valuable player and best defender, as well as being named to the All-Star Team.

Chabot made his debut for the senior national team at the 2018 World Cup , where he finished fourth with the team. A year later he won the silver medal with the team.

Achievements and Awards

2015 Participation in the CHL Top Prospects Game 2016 LHJMQ Second All-Star Team 2017 Coupe-du-Président win with the Saint John Sea Dogs 2017 Trophée Guy Lafleur 2017 Trophée Émile Bouchard

2017 Paul Dumont Trophy 2017 LHJMQ First All-Star Team 2017 CHL Defenceman of the Year 2019 participation in the NHL All-Star Game

International

2015 bronze medal at the U18 Junior World Championship 2017 silver medal at the U20 World Junior Championship 2017 Most Valuable Player of the U20 World Junior Championship

2017 Best Defender of the U20 World Junior Championship 2017 All-Star Team of the U20 Junior World Championship 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
2013/14	Saint John Sea Dogs	LHJMQ		55	1	21st	22nd	36		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Saint John Sea Dogs	LHJMQ		66	12	29	41	62		5	0	1	1	6th
2015/16	Saint John Sea Dogs	LHJMQ		47	11	34	45	79		17th	3	18th	21st	13
2016/17	Saint John Sea Dogs	LHJMQ		34	10	35	45	43		18th	5	18th	23	12
2017	Saint John Sea Dogs	Memorial Cup								4th	2	2	4th	14th
2016/17	Ottawa Senators	NHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Belleville Senators	AHL		13	2	5	7th	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Ottawa Senators	NHL		63	9	16	25th	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Ottawa Senators	NHL		70	14th	41	55	32		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Ottawa Senators	NHL		71	6th	33	39	42		-	-	-	-	-
LHJMQ total				202	34	119	153	220		40	8th	37	45	31
NHL overall				205	29	90	119	88		-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented Canada to:

U18 Junior World Championship 2015 U20 World Junior Championship 2016 U20 Junior World Championship 2017

World Championship 2018 World Championship 2019

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2015	Canada	U18 World Cup			7th	1	4th	5	0
2016	Canada	U20 World Cup	6th place		5	0	3	3	4th
2017	Canada	U20 World Cup			7th	4th	6th	10	8th
2018	Canada	WM	4th Place		6th	0	1	1	0
2019	Canada	WM			10	2	5	7th	8th
Juniors overall					19th	5	13	18th	12
Men overall					16	2	6th	8th	8th

( 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 Ottawa Senators website
• Thomas Chabot at eliteprospects.com (English)