Team USA hockey star Brady Tkachuk addressed haters who have theorized he might not be the sharpest tool in the shed.
On their “Wingmen” podcast, Brady, 26, and his brother, Matthew Tkachuk, discussed the importance of scoring the first goal in a do-or-die game, as the Americans did when they defeated Canada to win gold at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
The brothers were told, “In NHL history, the team that scores first in Game 7 has the dominant winning record of 150-50.”
“Sixty-six percent,” Brady said quickly in the Thursday, February 26, episode, clearly proud of himself. He continued, “That’s good math, too. That’s for the people that say I can’t read. That’s for you. Go eff yourself.”
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Brady’s excitement was short-lived, however, when Matthew, 28, told him he was, in fact, wrong.
“If you want me to completely ruin your math and your confidence right now, what’s 50 plus 150?” Matthew said, explaining that the correct answer was actually 75 percent.
“F***! 75! F***!” Brady said, flipping off the camera.
Brady has been busy since returning home from Italy, which has involved clearing up multiple controversies coming out of the Olympics.
The Ottawa Senators star was forced to address an AI-doctored video posted by the White House’s official TikTok account, in which Brady appeared to say about Canada, “They booed our national anthem, so I had to come out and teach those maple syrup-eating f***s a lesson.”
“Well, it’s clearly fake, because it’s not my voice, not my lips moving,” Brady told reporters on February 26. “I’m not in control of any of those accounts. I know that those words would never come out of my mouth. So, I can’t do anything about it.”
He added, “It’s not my voice. It’s not what I was saying. I would never say that. That’s not who I am, so I guess I don’t like that video because that would never come out of my mouth, and [I] never had that thought.”
Brady also denied the rumor that he joked about closing the Canadian border during a locker room phone call with President Donald Trump after the Americans won the gold medal game.
“I’ve been seeing stuff that people think it’s me,” Brady said on Thursday. “But if you watch the video, that’s not my voice. It’s something that I’d never say.”
He added, “I don’t know how that took a storm on its own when I give everything I have here.”
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Brady has played all eight seasons of his NHL career in Ottawa.
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The Tkachuk brothers and their Team USA teammates have faced backlash for laughing at a joke made by Trump during the locker room phone call, when the president said he would “probably be impeached” if he didn’t invite the Team USA women’s hockey team to the White House. (The women’s team also defeated Canada to win gold at the 2026 Olympics.)
“I don’t really have an answer. It’s a whirlwind of a moment,” Brady said on Thursday. “You can’t control what somebody says. I guess [we] got caught off guard a little bit. You’re talking to the president 10 minutes after you achieve your dream.”
He added, “I mean, I get it. We support them, they support us. You can’t control what other people say. It was fun being around them, seeing how they play and the excellence around them.”