The sentiment was at the heart of the message that the Senators — and especially their fans — seemed to want to deliver on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
It had all started right from the beginning, from the moment that Tkachuk took the ice for his return to Ottawa and Canadian Tire Centre, as he joined his teammates for warmups, as he took shots on goal, as he stood briefly near the boards, the fans made their position clear. It was there as the boos that rained on his tribute video turned to raucous cheers for the welcome back message to Lars Eller<\/a>, who had played a single season in Ottawa.<\/p>\n The chants were equally creative and numerous, ranging from the R-rated to the merely insulting.<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t need you,\u201d they chanted.<\/p>\n \u201cTraitor,\u201d they chanted.<\/p>\n \u201cLittle brother,\u201d they chanted.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can\u2019t read,\u201d they chanted.<\/p>\n \u201cYou eat crayons,\u201d they chanted.<\/p>\n \u201cBrady\u2019s balding,\u201d they chanted.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re a sellout,\u201d they chanted.<\/p>\n \u201cTimmy\u2019s better,\u201d they chanted.<\/p>\n \u201c(Bleep) your podcast,\u201d they chanted.<\/p>\n Every hit, every check, a rousing cheer.<\/p>\n Every step on the ice, every touch of the puck, a rousing boo.<\/p>\n It was, as a reporter noted after the game, fairly ruthless.<\/p>\n \u201cWere they ruthless?\u201d Brady Tkachuk asked back. \u201cNo, it was good. Shows the passion that they have. One chapter closed and, like I said, a new, exciting chapter that we\u2019re living in. It was nice to be in front of this passionate fanbase.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sentiment was at the heart of the message that the Senators — and especially their fans —…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-936552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}