Brady Tkachuk gets severely humbled by a towering Detroit Red Wings defenseman and it ends ugly
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Sam Walker
Feb 27, 2026 (8:37)
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Photo credit: Keito Newman-Imagn Images
Brady Tkachuk ate a brutal Simon Edvinsson hit, and the Ottawa Senators felt the sting as a winnable game slipped into overtime heartbreak.
Ottawa led, the building had juice, and Tkachuk was doing the usual net-front chaos.
Then the temperature spiked in one blink, on a clean step-up that caught everyone staring.
Edvinsson stepped into Tkachuk, and Tkachuk's own stick rode up and clipped his face as he went down.
It was one of those collisions where the sound hits you before the replay does.
Dylan Cozens rushed in for payback, and Edvinsson dropped him in the follow-up scrap.
Tkachuk still opened the scoring late in the first, his 15th of the season, a power-play rip that looked like it might be the difference.
Detroit didn't blink, and John Gibson quietly stole minutes between the pipes with 26 saves.
Brady Tkachuk and Ottawa Senators lose control
You could feel Senators fans go from fired up to furious, because that hit flipped the mood and the momentum in the same breath.
After the fight, Tkachuk skated over to jaw at Edvinsson and got tagged with a 10-minute misconduct.
That's the hidden damage, Ottawa's emotional engine suddenly sitting while the game tightened up.
Detroit tied it on the man advantage, and Dylan Larkin kept hunting soft spots off the flank.
In overtime, Larkin ended it at 1:50, and the Senators had to settle for the single point.
The Red Wings moved to 34-19-6, and Ottawa dropped to 28-22-8 in a matchup that felt way nastier than the score.
This is the tightrope with Tkachuk, you love the edge, but you can't lose his minutes when the next shift matters most.
If these teams see each other again soon, every shoulder check is going to feel like a message, and Tkachuk won't forget who sent the first one.
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