{"id":230071,"date":"2025-10-16T22:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/230071\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T22:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:42:07","slug":"senators-brady-tkachuk-out-6-8-weeks-after-thumb-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/230071\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators&#8217; Brady Tkachuk out 6-8 weeks after thumb surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/ott\/ottawa-senators\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Senators<\/a> captain <a data-player-guid=\"589e299d-8600-4982-28d3-185287e39092\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4319858\/brady-tkachuk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brady Tkachuk<\/a> underwent surgery on his right thumb Thursday, the team announced. The winger is expected to be out until at least Thanksgiving, with a recovery timeline of six to eight weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Tkachuk, 26, made the decision to get surgery after meeting with a doctor in New York on Wednesday for a second opinion. Sources said Tkachuk&#8217;s availability for the Olympic team should not be affected.<\/p>\n<p>The Ottawa captain was injured in the first period of Monday&#8217;s 4-1 loss 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> after he was cross-checked by Predators defenseman <a data-player-guid=\"f4a86762-9013-2e4a-3f79-facb6be5ff80\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/5436\/roman-josi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roman Josi<\/a> and went awkwardly into the boards. Tkachuk continued to play but did not finish the game.<\/p>\n<p>Tkachuk, who led the Senators with 29 goals last season, has three points in his first three games.<\/p>\n<p>The Senators, who made the playoffs last season, have started the season 1-3-1. Ottawa is reeling from an 8-4 loss to the Sabres at home on Wednesday, in its first game without Tkachuk.<\/p>\n<p>Tkachuk&#8217;s brother, Matthew, is also sidelined after undergoing offseason surgery. Both are expected to be impact players for Team USA at February&#8217;s Olympics in Milan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senators captain Brady Tkachuk underwent surgery on his right thumb Thursday, the team announced. The winger is expected&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-230071","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\/230071","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=230071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230071\/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=230071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}