Senators Provide Full Injury Update on Chabot, Sanderson and More
A broken arm will sideline Chabot for at least the rest of the regular season and some of the playoffs.
As expected, the official news on Thomas Chabot's injury isn't good. Senators head coach Travis Green announced on Thursday that Chabot has a broken arm that required surgery, and he'll be lost to the Senators for four to eight weeks. Chabot was injured on a cross-check by Rangers captain J.
T. Miller on Monday night. The play went unpenalized, and while some Sens fans hoped there might be some supplemental NHL discipline for Miller for breaking a guy's arm with his stick, the league didn't see it that way.
In fairness, that kind of cross-check happens twenty times every night in every game. This one happened to strike a vulnerable spot at just the wrong time. Chabot had his surgery today on "his forearm or something," as head coach Travis Green described it, and if the 29-year-old defenseman misses four weeks, that takes us to April 26, or eight days into the first round of the playoffs.
If he misses the max, eight weeks, then his return would be sometime during the Conference Final. But while the Senators have just arrived in a playoff position, they're a long way from clinching one. And with Chabot out for the rest of the regular season, the Sens could use some reinforcements to stay in this spot.