Senators captain Brady Tkachuk bristles at his name in trade rumors
Apr 20, 2026; Raleigh, North Carolina, USA; Ottawa Senators left wing Brady Tkachuk (7) comes off the ice after the warmups before the game against the Carolina Hurricanes in game two of the first round of the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs at Lenovo Center. Mandatory Credit: James Guillory-Imagn Images James Guillory/James Guillory-Imagn Images OTTAWA — Brady Tkachuk is tired, and it has nothing to do with having a newborn child. Back in Ottawa following the birth of he and his wife Emma’s second child, the Senators captain bristled at rumors that he might be interested in playing in the U.
S. “I feel like I’ve answered this hundreds of times,” said Tkachuk, who is from St. Louis.
“None of that, I feel like I’ve never shown, I’ve never said, none of those things ever came out of my mouth. And quite honestly, it’s just getting frustrating. It’s becoming a distraction, because I have been fully committed to this team, to the city, and it’s just becoming a distraction and frustrating to deal with.
” Tkachuk was held without a point in the first-round series against Carolina, a four-game sweep. “I don’t think anybody’s more frustrated with how everything went than me,” he said. “At the end of the day I didn’t play good enough.
I tried doing everything in my power to get my game going to make an impact, and just felt like nothing was going, nothing was going in, nothing was going my way. I have to live with that. ” Tkachuk said he wasn’t dealing with any injuries, making his lack of production that much more difficult to accept.