Brady Tkachuk has added a new wrinkle to his postgame geography lessons.
On the Wingmen podcast with Matthew and Brady Tkachuk, the brothers were talking through a game in Calgary where Brady said he was booed. He seemed genuinely taken aback by it, especially since he said he had cheered for Matthew when he played there and was part of the “C of Red”, Calgary’s nickname for its passionate fanbase, for a couple of years.
Matthew then asked whether Brady was booed in every Canadian city he played in after Team USA’s Gold Medal, and Brady answered:
“Not in Vancouver. But I was booed pretty good in Edmonton, and I was booed in Calgary.
Seattle, nothing. Toronto, I got booed.”
Later in the podcast, Brady said Toronto was the loudest of the bunch, with Edmonton next and Calgary third.
The odd part, of course, is that Brady grouped Seattle in with Canadian cities. After eight seasons in Canada and five years as captain of the Nation’s Capital, he should know better.
To be fair, the Seattle stop came on the same road trip as Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver for the Senators in early March, not long after the Americans beat the Canadians in the Gold Medal game. Maybe that explains it.
Or maybe it doesn’t. Either way, it made for a pretty funny moment.
Brady’s time in Ottawa was already pointing toward an exit. He still had two years left on the seven-year deal he signed there, but after the Senators were swept in the first round by the eventual Stanley Cup champion Carolina Hurricanes, reports surfaced that he had handed the team a list of four preferred destinations.
On June 21, he got the move he wanted, joining the Panthers and reuniting with Matthew in a trade that sent Ottawa the ninth and 25th overall picks in the 2026 NHL Draft, a first-round pick in 2029, and a second-round pick in 2027.
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