{"id":239161,"date":"2026-04-18T22:12:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/brady-tkachuk-sent-the-wrong-message-to-open-playoffs-for-senators\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:12:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:12:27","slug":"brady-tkachuk-sent-the-wrong-message-to-open-playoffs-for-senators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/brady-tkachuk-sent-the-wrong-message-to-open-playoffs-for-senators\/","title":{"rendered":"Brady Tkachuk sent the wrong message to open playoffs for Senators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Brady Tkachuk tried to deliver a message at the start of the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nhl\/teams\/ottawa_senators\/99\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ottawa Senators<\/a>. It failed spectacularly as the Senators dropped Game 1 of their Eastern Conference quarterfinal series, 2-0, against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nhl\/teams\/carolina_hurricanes\/103\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Brady Tkachuk&#8217;s fight makes no impact for Senators<\/h2>\n<p>Right off the opening face-off, Tkachuk dropped the gloves in what amounted to\u00a0a staged fight with Hurricanes forward Jordan Staal.<\/p>\n<p>It was very reminiscent of the way the 2025 4 Nations game between the United States and Canada opened, with the Tkachuk brothers (Brady and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nhl\/teams\/florida_panthers\/104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida Panthers\u00a0<\/a>forward Matthew Tkachuk) starting multiple fights to open the game. Perhaps his thinking here was that he could generate a similar spark, get his team going, and send some sort of message to the Hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>It did none of that\u00a0and only left Tkachuk looking embarrassed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nhl\/articles\/brady_tkachuk_sent_the_wrong_message_to_open_playoffs_for_senators\/s1_13132_43744439\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brady Tkachuk tried to deliver a message at the start of the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs for the Ottawa Senators. It failed spectacularly as the Senators dropped Game 1 of their Eastern Conference quarterfinal series, 2-0, against the Carolina Hurricanes. Brady Tkachuk&#8217;s fight makes no impact for Senators Right off the opening face-off, Tkachuk dropped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-239161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}