{"id":222952,"date":"2025-10-14T02:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T02:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/222952\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T02:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T02:19:07","slug":"senators-brady-tkachuk-being-evaluated-after-exiting-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/222952\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators&#8217; Brady Tkachuk being evaluated after exiting loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 13, 2025, 09:03 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA, Ontario &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/ott\/ottawa-senators\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ottawa Senators<\/a>, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/game\/_\/gameId\/401802392\/predators-senators\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fell 4-1<\/a> to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"d9088081-d43d-e521-3c19-d9b4fc1bc3ba\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/nsh\/nashville-predators\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nashville Predators<\/a> on Monday, played the final nine minutes of the third period without captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4319858\/brady-tkachuk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brady Tkachuk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tkachuk was cross-checked by Predators defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/5436\/roman-josi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roman Josi<\/a> early in the first period and went awkwardly into the boards. He was holding his right forearm as he got to his feet. He continued to play but didn&#8217;t always look comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously he didn&#8217;t finish the game down the stretch, he tried to,&#8221; Senators coach Travis Green said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t really have an update. He&#8217;s being evaluated right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Green wouldn&#8217;t refer to keeping Tkachuk off the ice as precautionary but did say it was a result of the first-period collision.<\/p>\n<p>The Senators are already without forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4271734\/drake-batherson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drake Batherson<\/a>, and losing Tkachuk for any amount of time would be challenging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 13, 2025, 09:03 PM ET OTTAWA, Ontario &#8212; The Ottawa Senators, who fell 4-1 to the Nashville&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-222952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}