He did absolutely everything he possibly could, but even playing 43+ minutes in the gold medal game couldn't bring Senators prospect Thomas Chabot the one piece of hardware that he truly wanted. Instead, he and his Team Canada teammates had to look on, fighting or shedding tears as he watched nemesis and future teammate Colin White and Team USA get awarded the Gold Medals while they had to settle for silver.
While it is tough for the players to digest in a Gold or bust culture for the tournament. the Canadian team can be proud of their accomplishment and you have to give credit to the US team for twice coming back from down two goals to tie the game and then win the shootout (which, by the way seems to be a conclusion that nobody likes, especially for a championship game).
It was truly a coming out party for Chabot, who was named one of Canada's best 3 players on Wednesday after the semi-final, adding the Best defenseman award, a spot on the tournament all-star team and also the big individual award, the tournament MVP.
Today he would undoubtedly trade all of the individual honors for a one-step upgrade on the team prize.
It was also a great tournament for Colin White, capturing the gold and presumably narrowly missing out on being named to the All-Star team in favor of linemate Clayton Keller.
Jonathan Dahlen also had a pretty solid tournament, although the Swedes were held without a medal. Dahlen scored the only goal and led all Swedish forwards in ice time in the Bronze medal overtime loss.