End Of An Era: Senators Reportedly Trade Brady Tkachuk To Florida
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The Brady Tkachuk era in Ottawa is over.
According to TSN's Pierre LeBrun, the Senators' captain has been traded to the Florida Panthers for three first-round draft picks and a second-round pick.
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The Sens get Florida's 9th overall pick on Friday, Tampa Bay's 25th overall pick on Friday, Florida's 2029 first-round pick, and Florida's 2030 second-round pick.
As a result of this deal, Ottawa currently hold three first-round picks in this year's draft:
- Florida's 9th overall
- Tampa's 25th overall selection is the pick the Panthers acquired from Seattle earlier today in the Mackie Samoskevich trade
- Senators' own pick at No. 32.
The Senators, who haven't yet confirmed the deal, don't get a single active player in the trade, which is the kind of deal rebuilding teams make. But the draft is still five days away, so we're kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop. One or all of those picks could easily be flipped in a deal for help between now and Friday, and frankly, I'd be shocked if they weren't.
If they aren't, the silver lining is a significant stockpile of draft capital to help refill a below-average prospect pool. The Sens also have some extra money ($8.2M) to work with this summer now that Tkachuk's contract is off the books.
Tkachuk was still two years away from unrestricted free agency. And while both the captain and the organization pushed back against questions about his future in Ottawa, the trade happened all the same.
It's reasonable to speculate that Brady may have let the Senators know that he inevitably planned to sign with Florida in 2028 to play with his brother Matthew. Perhaps he flat-out asked for this trade the way Detroit captain Dylan Larkin did. If that's the case, the Sens did a fine job of keeping this in-house.
But no matter how it happened, we do know that Brady has a no-movement clause, so he cannot deny that this was something he wanted, and as a result, the Sens opted to get what they could while they could.
Tkachuk had 59 points in 60 games with the Senators last season. He failed to record a point in four playoff games as the Senators were eliminated in the first round. He's been with the Senators since 2018, when Ottawa drafted him 4th overall.
By Steve Warne
The Hockey News