Change management and coaching, not Chabot. I suggest to not promote Chabot being a "cap dump", particularly on CF or Twitter because I can promise you would never hear the end of it.
This is a quick conversation I had on the subject this morning :
Quoting: xspyrit
The fanbase is turning massively against Chabot, ala Spezza v 2.0. Historically, these situations end up badly. Note that we have bred a talent like Chabot as a loser, it would take a pretty big change in coaching/philosophy to turn this around. You can see the narrative building up that he is becoming an anchor.
Quoting: Someone
comparing Chabot to Spezza is unfair. Spezza gave us multiple seasons of elite/high end play.
Has Chabot ever had an elite season? Has he ever looked like an 8 million player?
Then I answered this :
Be careful when you include money in these comparisons... Spezza's 7x7 contract was signed in 2007 and represented a CAP % of 13.92%... Chabot's contract is CAP % is 9.82%... Spezza's 7.0 AAV back then would be 11,623,200 this season.
Only Doughty has a higher TOI/GP in the NHL since 2018-19 (Chabot's 2nd season).
17th highest PPG in the NHL among D-men since that season too...
He is elite at certain things but of course, not that many players are perfect and good at everything, actually none are. Even Crosby was bad defensively in his younger years. What I am seeing is another "scapegoat" situation. It's really not Chabot's fault this team has this GM and coaching staff or when other good players on the team under-perform. Zub and DeMelo are by far the best RHD Chabot has ever played with (a lot of Zaitsev) and now he is being asked to play RD too lol
https://twitter.com/ARHockeyStats/status/1504510882033848321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1504510882033848321%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=
https://twitter.com/JFreshHockey/status/1504498699619160083
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