{"id":633618,"date":"2026-04-28T07:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/633618\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T07:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:12:10","slug":"speculation-surrounding-tkachuk-leaving-senators-is-nonsense-gm-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/633618\/","title":{"rendered":"Speculation surrounding Tkachuk leaving Senators is \u2018nonsense,\u2019 GM says"},"content":{"rendered":"

OTTAWA — Speculation of captain Brady Tkachuk<\/a> not being on the Ottawa Senators next season is \u201cnonsense,\u201d general manager Steve Staios said Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Two days after the Senators were eliminated in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference First Round by the Carolina Hurricanes, Staios addressed rumblings that Tkachuk — who is signed for two more seasons — could\u2019ve played his last game for Ottawa.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s nonsense is what it is,\u201d Staios said. \u201cI don\u2019t read it. I don\u2019t bother with it. We know what we have internally. We have great communication with our players, so we really don\u2019t focus on it.<\/p>\n

“I mean, this comes up very often. There’s nothing that we have talked about or thought about where that conversation should happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tkachuk was unavailable to speak during exit interviews Monday because his wife, Emma, had just given birth to their second child.<\/p>\n

Tkachuk, who signed a seven-year, $57.5 million contract ($8.214 million average annual value) with the Senators on Oct. 17, 2021, had 59 points (22 goals, 37 assists) in 60 games this season and was held without a point in the four playoff games.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old forward injured his hand during Ottawa’s third regular-season game on Oct. 13, had thumb surgery and didn\u2019t return until Nov. 28. He helped Team USA win the gold medal at the 2026 Winter Olympics and also helped Ottawa reach the postseason for the second straight year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he dealt with a lot,\u201d Staios said. \u201cI think we have to really put this into perspective here. I mean he came out of the gate, he dealt with an injury to start the season, goes off to the Olympics, wins a gold medal. In a condensed schedule, regular-season schedule — there was a lot this year. And there\u2019s a lot on him, and he continued to play.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrady\u2019s game continues to grow and mature both on and off the ice.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Selected by Ottawa with the No. 4 pick in the 2018 NHL Draft, Tkachuk was named captain on Nov. 5, 2021, at the age of 21 and, according to forward\u00a0Tim Stutzle<\/a>\u00a0is taking \u201ctremendous steps as a leader.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe became a captain very young, and I think that’s hard for anyone, becoming captain in a Canadian market,\u201d Stutzle said. \u201cAnd I feel like he puts a lot of pressure on himself, like we all do. And I feel like I can relate with him in a lot of ways, that way, and that he wants to win too. He cares.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

While Ottawa tried to shut down outside speculation around Tkachuk, there was little debate about the impact goalie Linus Ullmark<\/a> had for the group, particularly in the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA — Speculation of captain Brady Tkachuk not being on the Ottawa Senators next season is \u201cnonsense,\u201d general…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-633618","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\/633618","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=633618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}