Senators' Chabot out 3 weeks with injury

The Ottawa Senators will be without their top defenseman for the foreseeable future.

Thomas Chabot will miss the next three weeks with an ailment he sustained Friday night against the New York Islanders, Senators head coach Guy Boucher confirmed to TSN's Brent Wallace on Saturday.

Chabot took a big hit from Islanders enforcer Matt Martin in the second period, after which he left the game and didn't return.

The club continues to classify it as an upper-body injury. Boucher said on Friday night that it was not to the head.

Chabot is on a point-per-game pace for the Senators so far, having racked up 38 in as many contests. The 21-year-old blue-liner ranks second in the NHL in points among rearguards behind Morgan Rielly of the Toronto Maple Leafs.