Dante Fabbro
Age 28 · Shoots right · 6′0″ · 202 lb · Born Coquitlam, British Columbia, CAN
Drafted 2016, #17 overall by Nashville
Dante Fabbro scored 11 points (5 goals, 6 assists) in 74 games in 2025-26, 20th on Columbus. Against Pittsburgh: 1 point in the last 4 meetings.
This season
2026-27 regular season · 0 gamesColumbus have played 2 games and Dante Fabbro has not dressed yet. Next game on Friday 9 October against Pittsburgh. 2025-26 in full below.
Last season
2025-26 regular season · 74 games11 points in 74 games on a team that finished 17th
Where he ranks among NHL defencemen with 40+ games, then his scoring rate through the season in ten-game blocks.
Points per game · rolling blocks
Dashed line: season average (0.1). Dark blocks sit at or above it.
Where he ranks
See all: Where he ranks →A third-pair defenceman who kills penalties
Even-strength, power-play and shorthanded minutes, and how much of Columbus's power play went through him.
Special teams
Power-play involvement
Team power-play goals from the season team report; involvement is his power-play points.
Most of the goals come at even strength
How the 5 goals and 6 assists were scored: when, at what strength, in what game state, and per 60 minutes.
Goals by period
Goals by game state
2 of 5 goals broke a tie; 1 came with Columbus trailing.
Most attempts from the point, goals from the point
Every attempt, attacking right, from the games with a stored shot map.
By zone
169 attempts across the 66 games with a stored shot map.
Expected goals
See all: Expected goals →2025-26 · 74 games. Rank among all skaters by ixG.
Every unblocked attempt he took, weighed by its chance of scoring from that spot, shot type and strength. Above zero is finishing better than the chances.
xG leadersTop speed 21.26 mph, hardest shot 92.41 mph
How fast he skated, how far, how hard he shot and where on the ice his shifts were spent, against the average NHL defenceman.
Where his shifts were spent
Share of his time on ice in each zone.
Fastest moments
Bursts per speed band, against the defenceman average.
Hardest shots
Shot attempts per speed band.
Takes more penalties than he draws
Possession events, penalties drawn against penalties taken, and faceoffs.
Possession and physical
Points come in bunches, not every night (11 of 74)
How often he scores, how long the streaks run.
Streaks
Against Pittsburgh, a point in one of four
PITW 4-3 SO0000+14:34PITOTL 4-5 OT0001−114:37PITOTL 3-4 OT0003016:23PITW 5-4 SO0111013:56
WSHL 1-20001019:35
BOSL 2-30111017:46
MTLW 5-20001020:22
BUFL 0-50000016:30
DETW 4-3 SO0001019:15
WPGL 1-20001+118:05
CARL 1-50000−120:33CARL 2-50001017:55BOSOTL 3-4 SO0001+123:29
SJSL 2-30000−116:52Better at home, and at his best against the next opponent
Home and road
By opponent
By month
$4.13M a season through 2028-29
In 2025-26 he scored 2.7 points per $1M of cap hit, 178th of 191 defencemen with 40 or more games and a current contract.
Cap hit is the average annual charge against the salary cap, not a yearly salary; cap value is cap hit times the years of the deal, not a reported total. As of 2 Oct 2026.
With Columbus
Two seasons · 2024-25 to 2025-26Mathieu Olivier sets him up more than anyone
Built from goal and assist records: who assists on his goals, whose goals he assists, and his scoring against each opponent.
Who sets him up
Assists on his 5 goals, 2025-26.
Who he sets up
Scorers on his 6 assists.
By opponent
Tampa Bay1 P in 20.50 P/GP
Calgary1 P in 20.50 P/GP
Edmonton1 P in 20.50 P/GP
Ottawa1 P in 20.50 P/GP
Vegas1 P in 20.50 P/GPBuffalo1 P in 30.33 P/GPFranchise ranks
See all: Franchise ranks →Career
Regular season and playoffsEight seasons, with 2 clubs
Career · regular season
Season rows reconcile with the official career totals.
Draft
Updated after every final · through 6 Oct