{"id":523852,"date":"2026-03-26T14:06:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T14:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/523852\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T14:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T14:06:23","slug":"ottawa-senators-d-thomas-chabot-may-need-surgery-on-arm-after-j-t-miller-cross-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/523852\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators D Thomas Chabot may need surgery on arm after J.T. Miller cross-check"},"content":{"rendered":"

It appears the Ottawa Senators<\/a> could be without defenceman Thomas Chabot<\/a> well into the postseason, should the team overcome their rash of injuries to make the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Bruce Garrioch of Postmedia<\/a> reports the Senators are trying to determine if Chabot will need surgery on his arm injury, noting that going under the knife would rule out the blueliner for six-to-eight weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cA league executive told the Ottawa Citizen that the possibility of surgery would suggest that Chabot fractured the right arm when he left in the dying seconds of the first [period on Monday],\u201d Garrioch wrote Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Chabot sustained the injury on a cross-check from New York Rangers<\/a> captain J.T. Miller<\/a>. Fellow defenceman Lassi Thomson<\/a> was also injured in the first period of the 2-1 win, with head coach Travis Green<\/a> stating postgame that they would \u201cboth be out for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chabot, 29, has seven goals and 31 points in 55 games this season while averaging 22:34 of ice time. <\/p>\n

With veteran Nick Jensen<\/a> on injured reserve, the Senators are currently without four defencemen amid their playoff push, including ice-time leader Jake Sanderson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old Sanderson is expected back next week after being out since March 7 with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n

Ottawa enters play Thursday sitting in the second wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference, owning a game in hand on the New York Islanders<\/a>, who sit outside the playoff picture with an equal 85 points. <\/p>\n

The Senators will host the Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> on Thursday with a loss potentially knocking either team from the playoff picture. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It appears the Ottawa Senators could be without defenceman Thomas Chabot well into the postseason, should the team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5104],"tags":[4759,5,4,72,25,33540,5157,73,43042],"class_list":{"0":"post-523852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ottawa-senators","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-ottawa","12":"tag-ottawa-senators","13":"tag-ottawa-senators-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-9","14":"tag-ottawasenators","15":"tag-senators","16":"tag-thomas-chabot-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8478469"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116295865741224086","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}