{"id":449870,"date":"2026-02-02T21:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/449870\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T21:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:31:12","slug":"tkachuk-of-senators-ready-to-live-childhood-dream-of-playing-in-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/449870\/","title":{"rendered":"Tkachuk of Senators ready to live ‘childhood dream’ of playing in Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"

PITTSBURGH — Brady Tkachuk<\/a> wants to turn a dream into reality.<\/p>\n

The Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 are nearing. Tkachuk, a forward for the Ottawa Senators, will represent the United States, starting with its open against Latvia on Feb. 12.<\/p>\n

Competing is exciting, but winning is the expectation.<\/p>\n

“We’re going there, and all 12 nations want that gold medal,” Tkachuk told NHL.com on Monday. “So that’s something that, it’s been a childhood dream of, not just mine, but by every Olympian, that they want to come out with gold. Really believe in our team, really believe in the build, the makeup.”<\/p>\n

It won’t be the first time Tkachuk has played internationally.<\/p>\n

In February 2025, he starred alongside his older brother, Matthew Tkachuk<\/a> of the Florida Panthers, in the 4 Nations Face-Off. Brady scored three goals in four games; Matthew had three points (two goals, one assist) in three games.<\/p>\n

“At that time, that was kind of my mindset, first time best-on-best,” Brady Tkachuk said. “That was Olympics-esque just because I’ve never experienced it. So I really tried to be as best I can for that.”<\/p>\n

They were left disappointed, though. After defeating Canada 3-1 on Feb. 15 during the round-robin portion of the tournament, the United States lost 3-2 in overtime in the final Feb. 20.<\/p>\n

“I think experiencing what we did in 4 Nations,” Tkachuk said, “it just created that much more fire to win gold.”<\/p>\n

Jake Sanderson<\/a>, Tkachuk’s teammate with the Senators and the United States, agrees.<\/p>\n

The defenseman scored one goal in two games at 4 Nations and is eager to measure himself against a deeper talent pool spread across more countries at the Olympics. He seems primed with 44 points (10 goals, 34 assists) in 54 games for the Senators this season.<\/p>\n

“It’s the top of the top,” Sanderson said. “Doesn’t get any better than that. I think all the players have been really looking forward to it. I’m sure everybody’s pretty fired up. … I think everybody’s capable of winning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH — Brady Tkachuk wants to turn a dream into reality. The Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-449870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}