Detroit Red Wings fans have been waiting to hear from forward Dylan Larkin all summer after he requested a trade away from the team at the start of the offseason.
The Ottawa Senators had a lot of change happen this offseason. It seemed as if things would operate as normal until a few days before the NHL Draft. Then, the Senators traded Brady Tkachuk in a stunning blockbuster deal with the Florida Panthers.
With the 2026-27 NHL season kicking off at the end of the month, we’re starting to hear from players and see how they’re feeling heading into the new campaign.
In late June, the Ottawa Senators traded captain Brady Tkachuk to the Florida Panthers in exchange for three first-round draft picks and one second-round pick.
The NHL has had an interesting new millennium. It was a league sans a salary cap when the 2000s started… and then the owners locked the players out for an entire season.
LAS VEGAS – Gee, what should we talk about? A tip of the cap to new Florida Panthers left winger Brady Tkachuk for dispensing with the small talk pretty much the moment he sat down with a small group of reporters Tuesday morning at the start of the 2026-27 NHL Player Media Tour.
Training camp is closing in, and with the Ottawa Senators holding a media availability ahead of their Senators Charity Open golf tournament, some of the biggest offseason storylines were addressed by the team.
Brady Tkachuk’s offseason trade request sent shockwaves through Ottawa. Another American Olympic Team star asking out of Canada, another captain bailing on a Canadian franchise, and ultimately another high‑profile departure that stings far deeper than the transaction log.
The Ottawa Senators enter training camp with a top-six forward group that looks a bit different than past years. Obviously, their former captain, Brady Tkachuk asked out and the Senators shipped him to the Florida Panthers so he could be with his brother, Matthew.
There has been quite a bit of discussion in Ottawa about toughness since Brady Tkachuk left town. That makes sense. Tkachuk wasn't exactly difficult to notice when things got nasty.
There is a funny thing about sports. A player can spend years becoming part of a franchise's identity, wear the captain's C, become involved in the community and help carry a team through some pretty lean years—and then leave under circumstances that make some fans want to forget the whole relationship ever existed.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
The Ottawa Senators intend to honor Brady Tkachuk with a tribute video when he returns back to play against the Senators this season, but now as a member of the Florida Panthers.
The 2026-2027 NHL season will be pivotal for the Ottawa Senators. Despite the Brady Tkachuk trade in the off-season, the expectation from general manager Steve Staois is that the team will continue to take another step forward.
Brady Tkachuk spent eight seasons with the Ottawa Senators and five as their captain before a blockbuster offseason trade sent him to the Florida Panthers, creating an anticipated early-season reunion between the Atlantic Division rivals.
This summer has been one of significant change for the Ottawa Senators. At the forefront of that change was the Brady Tkachuk trade, the captain of the team and the player that “dragged them into the fight.” For years, it seemed as though Ottawa was being built to be in the mould of the Florida Panthers—extremely physical.
The Ottawa Senators are getting closer to naming their next captain, and there are several reasonable choices. Thomas Chabot has been around longer than anybody else on the roster.
While it was probably a net positive for the Ottawa Senators to move on from Brady Tkachuk, there will undoubtedly be an absence felt by the team this season.
When the Ottawa Senators traded Brady Tkachuk, the obvious question was how they would replace his production. But that may not actually be the most interesting question.
New Florida Panthers forward Brady Tkachuk has built a reputation as one of the NHL’s biggest agitators, and that role has made him a frequent target of opposing crowds throughout his career.
If Brady Tkachuk hadn’t given fans enough reasons to rag on him, he offered up another one during his latest podcast. Speaking with his brother Matthew about which Canadian cities booed him the most, Brady started listing them and included Seattle.
Apparently, former Ottawa Senator and now Florida Panthers forward Brady Tkachuk thinks Seattle is a Canadian city. On the Wingmen podcast with Matthew and Brady Tkachuk, the brothers began discussing a game in which Brady was booed in Calgary.
The Tkachuk brothers are making headlines. Not necessarily for the right reasons. We know Brady isn't the brightest, and in a video making the rounds online, he's once again made a fool of himself.
Even after years of speculation that he’d one day leave Ottawa, Brady Tkachuk getting traded to the Florida Panthers came as a shock to the hockey world.
It’s been about a month since the Ottawa Senators shook up the NHL offseason by trading captain Brady Tkachuk to the Florida Panthers for a massive haul of draft picks.