The Senators will be without Thomas Chabot for at least the next stretch of games, and they’re bracing for life without their captain on the blue line.
On Monday, head coach Travis Green said Chabot is expected to miss 1-2 weeks as he works back from an upper-body injury.
The injury came in Saturday’s game against the Philadelphia Flyers, though neither Green nor the team has specified exactly what is bothering the veteran defenseman. Chabot appeared to hurt his wrist while tripping Flyers forward Trevor Zegras just past the halfway point of the first period.
He tried to keep going, but his night ended shortly after that. Chabot played through five shifts before the middle of the second period, finishing with 12:03 of ice time over 16 shifts. He had one shot on goal and finished at minus-1 as Ottawa lost to the previously winless Flyers.
Green also said Chabot had already been dealing with something before Saturday’s game and suggested the issue may have started in Ottawa’s shootout win over the New York Islanders on Thursday.
“It might have happened the game before,” Green said. “It happened early; finished the game.”
For Ottawa, this is an unwelcome but familiar absence. Chabot has rarely been able to stay on the ice for a full season over the course of his NHL career.
In his first nine seasons, the only time he played every regular-season game came in 2019-20, when he appeared in all 71 contests during the COVID-shortened schedule. Last season, he was limited to 57 games after playing 80 in 2023-24.
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