inside the rangers Brady Tkachuk trade shows how Rangers are outside the inner circle in NHL’s new normal By Mollie Walker Published June 23, 2026, 11:04 a.m. ET Senators winger Brady Tkachuk skates during a game against the Rangers on March 23, 2026. Jason Szenes for the NY Post Brady Tkachuk forsook his Senators captaincy in seasonal Ottawa to cannonball into a sunnier/state-tax-free life with the Panthers and his older brother, Matthew.
And now, the 31 other NHL teams will have to go through both Tkachuk brothers in South Florida this upcoming season.
This is the current landscape of the NHL. Players equipped with no-move clauses are masters of their own fates.
Just one season into having that NMC kick in, the younger Tkachuk joined a growing list of coveted talent to exercise the leverage and, in turn, delivered the greatest Father’s Day gift to Keith Tkachuk.
