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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOttawa Senators’ Thomas Chabot speaks to media during a year end press conference in Ottawa on Monday, April 27, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/ Patrick Doyle<\/p>\n
\u201cOttawa\u2019s home for us. We bought our first house here, we\u2019ve had our first child here,\u201d said Chabot, whose wife, Marion, gave birth to their baby daughter last week. \u201cOttawa will always be close to our heart, no matter what.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery organization goes through different times, and we\u2019re looking ahead in what we have here,\u201d he added. \u201cWe\u2019re excited of the team we have. We have tons of guys that are happy to be here and want to play and want to wear this jersey every night.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chabot, who has often served as a team ambassador for francophone fans in the Ottawa-Gatineau region, becomes the 11th captain in franchise history after the Senators sent Tkachuk to the Florida Panthers in June, following his trade request. Tkachuk had served as captain for parts of five seasons after taking over the role Nov. 5, 2021.<\/p>\n
In 569 career games with Ottawa, Chabot has recorded 78 goals and 257 assists, including seven goals and 24 assists in 57 games last season.<\/p>\n
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Chabot is signed through the 2027-28 season with a salary cap hit of US$8 million.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe players gravitate to him. The way that he plays the game, the way he commits to the game is inspiring for his teammates,\u201d Senators general manager Steve Staios said. \u201cI think for a long time we knew who it was going to be. We had the very fortunate ability to look at a number of players on our group to be able to lead us, but clearly Thomas is the guy.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe doesn\u2019t have to do anything different than what he\u2019s already done to lead this group.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Senators, who were swept by the eventual Stanley Cup champion Carolina Hurricanes in the first round of last season\u2019s playoffs, open their 2026-27 campaign Saturday against the Toronto Maple Leafs.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 29, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2013 Thomas Chabot is the Ottawa Senators\u2019 newest captain following Brady Tkachuk\u2019s off-season departure. The Senators announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":914491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-914490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}