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Dylan Fabre (born 10 November 2000) is a French professional ice hockey player for Porin Ässät of the SM-liiga. Internationally, Fabre has represented France. Fabre started his professional career in the Ligue Magnus, France's top-level league, playing for Brûleurs de Loups, the men's team of his youth club.
Career
Junior career
Fabre started ice hockey in the youth organization of Brûleurs de Loups. Fabre represented Brûleurs de Loups as a 12-year-old in the Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament in the 2012–13 season. Fabre played four games and scored a total of nine points.
During the 2014–15 season, Fabre played for Brûleurs de Loups U18 II team in the French U18 3rd division. Fabre only played three games, which were all playoff games. In the following season, Fabre represented Brûleurs de Loups in the U18 first team for a total of six regular season games and five playoff games. In total, Fabre scored 13 points.
In Fabre's last fully junior season (2016–17), he played for Brûleurs de Loups U17 for 20 games where he put up 34 points. Fabre also represented Brûleurs de Loups U20 in five games, scoring 3 points.
Professional career
Brûleurs de Loups (2017–2023)
In the 2017–18 season, Fabre played five games with Brûleurs de Loups of the French top division, Ligue Magnus. Fabre put up zero points and two penalty minutes. Brûleurs de Loups finished 2nd in the league. Fabre also played some U20 games and went on a 17-game loan with Les Grizzlys of the French 3rd division, where he put up 17 points.
The following season, 2018–19, Fabre played 25 games with the Brûleurs de Loups, only scoring three points. Fabre also played five games in the U20 league. He went on loan to two different teams, the Les Grizzlys (4 games, 5 points) and the Éléphants de Chambéry of the French 2nd division (5 games, 6 points). Brûleurs de Loups won the French Championship that season.
In the 2019–20 season, Fabre again represented the Brûleurs de Loups in 31 regular season games, with 18 points, and four playoff games, with one point. Fabre played six games for Brûleurs de Loups in the Champions Hockey League (CHL), the top level of European club competitions, but did not score a point.
The following 2020–21 season, Fabre played 22 regular season games for Brûleurs de Loups and put up nine points.
In the 2021–22 season, Fabre played again for Brûleurs de Loups. Fabre appeared in 31 regular season games where he put up 27 points. Fabre also played 10 playoff games with 11 points. Fabre got to hold the Magnus Cup with Brûleurs de Loups as they won the French Championship again.
The 2022–23 season saw Fabre break his career records in the Ligue Magnus and the Champions Hockey League, as he played 42 regular season games with 44 points and 15 playoff games with 14 points. Fabre also played six Champions Hockey League games where he put up four points. Fabre won the Coupe de France with Brûleurs de Loups, and placed 2nd in the French Championship. Fabre won the Jean Pierre-Graff Trophy, which is awarded for the most promising player of the Ligue Magnus each year.
Porin Ässät (2023–present)
On May 26, 2023, it was announced that Fabre signed a two-year contract to Finnish club Porin Ässät of the SM-liiga. Fabre made his debut in an Ässät jersey at the Pitsiturnaus preseason tournament where he scored 3 goals all against Ässät's rival team Lukko. Fabre made his SM-liiga debut on the 13th of September in a game against Ilves Tampere. Satakunnan Kansa described Fabre as potentially the best French player in the SM-liiga ever.
International play
Fabre represented France in the U18 World Championships for six games with one point. Fabre got to represent the France men's national team in the 2022 IIHF World Championship where he played seven games without any points. He again represented France in the 2023 IIHF World Championship, playing in six games without any points.
Playing style
Ässät general manager Janne Vuorinen described Dylan Fabre as a modern player with fast legs and a good scoring ability. Fabre has said that his greatest strength is his speed.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 2017–18 | Brûleurs de Loups | FRA U20 | 17 | 12 | 12 | 24 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 2 | ||
| 2017–18 | Brûleurs de Loups | FRA | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2018–19 | Brûleurs de Loups | FRA U20 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 0 | ||
| 2018–19 | Brûleurs de Loups | FRA | 25 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2019–20 | Brûleurs de Loups | FRA | 31 | 9 | 9 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2020–21 | Brûleurs de Loups | FRA | 22 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 25 | ||
| 2021–22 | Brûleurs de Loups | FRA | 31 | 17 | 10 | 27 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 6 | ||
| 2022–23 | Brûleurs de Loups | FRA | 42 | 22 | 22 | 44 | 6 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 14 | 2 | ||
| FRA totals | 156 | 54 | 47 | 101 | 32 | 29 | 15 | 11 | 26 | 8 | ||||
International
| Year | Team | Event | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | France | U18 WJC | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| 2019 | France | U20 WJC D1A | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| 2020 | France | U20 WJC D1B | 5 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 0 | |
| 2022 | France | WC | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 2023 | France | WC | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |
| Junior totals | 16 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 4 | |||
| Senior totals | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |||
Awards and honours
| Award | Year(s) | |
|---|---|---|
| Ligue Magnus | ||
| Magnus Cup champion | 2019, 2022 | |
| Jean-Pierre Graff Trophy | 2023 | |
| Coupe de France | 2023 | |
