Chabot and Trouba would make sense as an even swap, but as much as the Rangers could really use another puck mover who can help us transition up ice quicker, we also aren’t exactly killer defensively as is. But on paper it’s a swap that makes sense on both sides. Miller, Chabot and Lindgren would be the LH D, Fox and Schneider on the right. Ottawa needs RH D that are less offensively focused. NYR needs to get faster and smoother with the puck. Trouba will never waive though.
Trouba for Chabot would be an absolute coup for the Sens. He's exactly what they need, and would balance out their defence corps so perfectly (if they can then retain Chychrun).
But yeah...that's obviously a non-starter from Trouba's end. So it's a moot point.
I think the sort of unspoken element in the frustration and reason to potentially move on from Chabot in Ottawa, is that he's kind of the poster boy for everything that has been disappointing and under-delivered in this "era" of the Senators "rebuild". He's a "big name" who can individually post good offensive numbers and log a ton of minutes...but he's a total flake defensively who just bleeds chances, can take little brain vacations far too frequently, and really doesn't "play the right way" overall as part of a "winning team".
That's been largely the story with the Sens during this era as a whole. Just a collection of talented guys who might seem fine individually, but putting all those individual talents together ends up being far less than the sum of it's parts as a group. I think that being the most glaring example, a big $$$ contract commitment, and one of the sort of OGs of this rebuild era, makes Chabot a bit of a target to move for a meaningful shakeup. He's certainly
part of the problem and playing as many minutes as he typically does, he's a real tone setter. So if you want to radically overhaul that "tone" being set...he's probably the single biggest "bang for your buck" shakeup move. Moving him and bringing in someone more defensively-oriented, mean, physical, intense, would be a major statement that i'm not sure any other particular player on the team would represent.
