“Brady Tkachuk no longer wants to play for the Senators.”

Brady Tkachuk loves hotly contested games. You saw it with your own eyes during the Olympic finals and the Four Nations tournament against Canada.

Yesterday was a playoff game between the Senators and the Canadiens. It was a very important game, ultimately won by Montreal. With this loss, the Sens’ chances of making the playoffs have dropped by more than 15%. And in this crucial game, did you notice the Ottawa captain?

I didn’t, in any case. He was invisible, and at one point, I even thought he wasn’t playing.

I’m not the only one who didn’t notice him. Michel Bergeron also made this observation and, on the program JiC, he said this:

I’m breaking the news that Tkachuk no longer wants to play in Ottawa. – Michel Bergeron

From the way he behaved on the ice yesterday, it looks like this…

He’s not having a bad season. He has 43 points in as many games, but we remember that he was injured at the start of the season and that his comments against Canada, the country of the team he captains, caused quite a stir.

Imagine if Nick Suzuki were American and hehe made comments like that about Canada. That wouldn’t have gone down well in Montreal…”

According to Bergeron (TVA Sports), the younger of the Tkachuk brothers wants to follow Matthew’s lead and force a trade with the club that drafted him. Ottawa, which wants to win now, will have this “hot potato” to deal with in the middle of the playoff race.

Not ideal. But hey… at least the Sens got their first-round pick (32nd overall) back.

In a nutshell

– That’s for sure.

– Will he sign with the CH?

I hear Brendan Gallagher is going to start skipping his turn.

For some time now, Brendan Gallagher has been struggling. He has his moments, but otherwise, it’s been tougher than usual.

Fortunately, the Gally era is coming to an end.

According to Mitch Gallo, co-host of a radio show (Campbell vs Gallo) on TSN 690, #11 should be left out of the lineup from time to time from now on. That’s good news, and it takes guts to do that to a veteran like him.

That takes guts, because Gallagher gave his all for the Habs. He has played 898 games in the big league, scoring 245 goals and 239 assists.

He was born to be a member of the team and will retire as a member of the team. He’s still being paid $6.5 million until the end of next season, but it’s high time to move on to something else.

With Cole Caufield’s return, who Renaud Lavoie says has the flu, it’s not Alexandre Texier’s turn to step up. The worst forward—”>it’s flat to say —, it’s Gally.

Speaking of Caufield, Lavoie didn’t see him yesterday at the Canadian Tire Center.