{"id":941695,"date":"2026-10-22T05:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T05:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/941695\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T05:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T05:36:10","slug":"former-captain-tkachuk-hears-boos-in-return-as-ottawa-senators-roll-to-win-over-florida-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/941695\/","title":{"rendered":"Former captain Tkachuk hears boos in return as Ottawa Senators roll to win over Florida Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"

OTTAWA \u2014 With fans chanting \u201cWe don\u2019t need you!,\u201d the Ottawa Senators<\/a> defeated Brady Tkachuk<\/a> and his Florida Panthers<\/a> 5-1 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Tkachuk, who spent eight seasons in Ottawa, including five as captain, received a hostile reception in his return to Canadian Tire Centre. <\/p>\n

He was booed regularly and fans chanted throughout the evening. A number of fans also threw \u201cTkachuk\u201d jerseys on the ice.<\/p>\n

The Senators (7-3-0) lost goaltender Linus Ullmark<\/a> early in the third period. Ullmark, who allowed one goal on 17 shots, made a pad save on Tkachuk and left the game.<\/p>\n

Sam Ersson faced one shot in relief.<\/p>\n

Tim Stutzle, Claude Giroux<\/a>, Shane Pinto<\/a>, Warren Foegele<\/a> and Stephen Halliday<\/a> scored for the Senators.<\/p>\n

Tkachuk scored the lone goal for the Panthers (5-3-2), who saw their three-game winning streak come to an end. Akira Schmid<\/a> made 25 saves.<\/p>\n

Emotions boiled over in the third. Tkachuk, brother Matthew and Sam Bennett<\/a> got into it in front of Ottawa\u2019s bench with Tkachuk and Dylan Cozens<\/a> getting into a heated exchange. <\/p>\n

Ottawa\u2019s Ridly Greig<\/a> and Bennett fought earlier in the period.<\/p>\n

Foegele gave the Senators a 4-1 lead by finishing off a great feed from Cozens at the eight-minute mark of the third. Halliday made it 5-1 when he scored off a Stutzle drop-pass.<\/p>\n

The Senators scored twice in the second period. Giroux scored his second of the season through traffic from the top of the slot midway through the stanza. <\/p>\n

Pinto made it 3-1 late in the period.<\/p>\n

Despite the hostile welcome, Tkachuk seemed unfazed and opened the scoring for the Panthers with a power-play goal midway through the first period on a feed from his brother.<\/p>\n

Stutzle tied the game just over four minutes later with a one-timer off a pass from Jake Sanderson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Takeaways <\/p>\n

Senators: Ottawa played with intensity and determination and was rewarded.<\/p>\n

Panthers: The Panthers seemed to get caught up in the emotion of the game early on and drew a couple needless penalties.<\/p>\n

Key Stat<\/p>\n

Sanderson (305 GP) became the second-fastest Senators defenceman to reach 40 career multi-point games, behind Erik Karlsson<\/a> (233 GP).<\/p>\n

Key Moment<\/p>\n

Ullmark needed assistance when he left the game early in the third period.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Senators: Ottawa will host the San Jose Sharks<\/a> on Thursday. <\/p>\n

Panthers: Florida heads to Pittsburgh to face the Penguins on Thursday.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published October 21, 2026\u2028<\/p>\n

Lisa Wallace, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 With fans chanting \u201cWe don\u2019t need you!,\u201d the Ottawa Senators defeated Brady Tkachuk and his Florida…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":941696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739,82],"class_list":["post-941695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941695","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=941695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}