Player Discussion Thomas Chabot (D) Part 2

[Micklebot]

Over his career, while paired with DeMelo, Zub, or Jensen:

	With DeMelo, Zub, Jensen	Without
TOI	2278.37​	5357.48​
GF/60	3.27​	2.69​
GA/60	2.98​	3.06​
GF%	52.32%​	46.78%​
xGF/60	2.66​	2.66​
xGA/60	2.47​	2.69​
xGF%	51.82%​	49.70%​

With the right partner, he's always been solid.

 

[Alf Silfversson]

Over his career, while paired with DeMelo, Zub, or Jensen:

	With DeMelo, Zub, Jensen	Without
TOI	2278.37​	5357.48​
GF/60	3.27​	2.69​
GA/60	2.98​	3.06​
GF%	52.32%​	46.78%​
xGF/60	2.66​	2.66​
xGA/60	2.47​	2.69​
xGF%	51.82%​	49.70%​

With the right partner, he's always been solid.

Yup. He also developed some pretty bad habits playing close to 30 minutes a night on some pretty terrible, unstructured teams.

 

[Micklebot]

Yup. He also developed some pretty bad habits playing close to 30 minutes a night on some pretty terrible, unstructured teams.

Too many mins and not trusting your partner to make simple plays with the puck can create a sense that you need to do it yourself, I do still think he lacks urgency at times though, and I'm not sure you can pin that on his partner, but if he's not searching for options that don't involve the likes of Zaitsev, it mitigates those warts in his game.

We're seeing right now the difference partners make with Sanderson, hopefully Zub can return ASAP and we can get back to talking about Sanderson as a Norris contender instead of his struggles.

 

[bicboi64]

Over his career, while paired with DeMelo, Zub, or Jensen:

	With DeMelo, Zub, Jensen	Without
TOI	2278.37​	5357.48​
GF/60	3.27​	2.69​
GA/60	2.98​	3.06​
GF%	52.32%​	46.78%​
xGF/60	2.66​	2.66​
xGA/60	2.47​	2.69​
xGF%	51.82%​	49.70%​

With the right partner, he's always been solid.

Incoming 55pt season Chabot prior to a SCF finals run in 2025

 

[SlapJack]

He has been really good of late and bringing the best of what he has to offer, which he has done over the last few years, but sporadically. Challenge will always be his decision making under pressure.

He will never be on the same level as Sanderson for this, and it will rear its ugly ahead again sometime, just have to hope he can keep those to a minimum. With a competent D partner and Sanderson doing the hard part, that puts Chabot in a better position to not screw up as much and keep the brain farts to a minimum. They won't go away though, he is what he is at this point.

 

[Xspyrit]

All of this and something that hasn’t been talked about is that a good coaching staff will work towards having players play through their strengths and minimize the impact of their weaknesses (a bit like Hoffman was handled back then)

I wonder if there’s posters who might venture to say that’s what happened under DJ.