A season of pandemic hockey may have been challenging for some NHL players.
But for Coquitlam’s Dante Fabbro, it was a ticket to a new two-year contract worth $4.8 million with the Nashville Predators.
The 23-year-old scored a goal and added 11 assists in 40 games in his sophomore season with the Preds. He missed several games in the shortened 56-game schedule due to an undisclosed upper-body injury.
In the defenceman’s rookie season with the Predators in 2019-20, he totalled five goals and six assists in 64 games.
Fabbro, who attended Lord Baden-Powell Elementary, Como Lake Middle and Centennial Secondary schools, and played much of his minor hockey at the Burnaby Winter Club, was selected by Nashville in the first round — 17th overall — of the 2016 NHL Draft.
He ultimately signed with the team after completing three seasons at Boston University where he scored 80 points in 111 games and was named to the Hockey East second all-star team in both his sophomore and junior years.
Fabbro also represented Canada several times, including at the 2018 Spengler Cup in Switzerland, the 2017 and 2018 World Junior Championships and the 2016 Under-18 Worlds.
