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Thomas Chabot of the Ottawa Senators scores against the Toronto Maple Leafs during the first period at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto on Oct. 3, 2026. Photo by Kevin Sousa \/Getty Images<\/p>\nArticle content<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re a captain of the Ottawa Senators, you stick it to the Maple Leafs.<\/p>\n
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Daniel Alfredsson certainly understood that, Brady Tkachuk took it literally, and now count Thomas Chabot in that number.<\/p>\n
In his first game with the \u2018C\u2019 for the Sens, in the wake of a sad summer when Tkachuk was granted a trade to Florida and Alfredsson joined Toronto\u2019s coaching staff, Chabot had the opening goal in a 3-2 win to open another Battle of Ontario series.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was awesome, I\u2019m not going to lie,\u201d said Chabot, who jumped on one of the few Sergei Bobrovsky rebounds. \u201cI\u2019m never one to make it about myself, but scoring the first one (in Ottawa\u2019s first game of the schedule) was pretty cool. My parents were in the building, too. It\u2019s been special last couple of days.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI liked the way we stuck with it tonight (down 2-1 and without top defenceman Jake Sanderson after a first-period injury). We\u2019re tight, man, we have so much fun, during the game, after the game and all day long. We had an unreal (team road) dinner last night, a really fun way to start the year.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Thomas Chabot of the Ottawa Senators scores against the Toronto Maple Leafs during the first period at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto on Oct. 3, 2026. Photo by Kevin Sousa \/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Beating the Leafs will do that, with Alfredsson on the other bench, though his name was not mentioned after the game, a topic that can go on the back burner now until his return to Ottawa on January 20.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re going to wait a week to start and you had to pick the spot to play, if it wasn\u2019t at home, it would probably be (Toronto),\u201d said Ottawa coach Travis Green. \u201cAny time you play the Leafs in this building there\u2019s going to be a little more emotion.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was exactly 25 years ago Saturday in the same rink that Alfredsson assisted on Todd White\u2019s winning goal in a 5-4 Senators decision to start the 2001-02 campaign. Green, then a Leaf, had an assist in the match, while Mats Sundin, the Toronto captain who wooed Alfredsson away to be Toronto\u2019s associate coach as its current senior advisor, had a goal and assist.<\/p>\n
Ottawa, always a buzzsaw bunch, was the last of 32 NHL teams to start its journey.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was fun to be at home all week and at 7 p.m. watch (other teams) on TV,\u201d said Chabot. \u201cBut you want to be out there. The week was long, but we put in the work that was able to (pay off) today.\u201d<\/p>\n
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