Matthew Tkachuk

Generally, in my... experience dealing with people, and they're so incredibly welcoming of the Canadians.

So why did first Matthew and then Brady request trades out of their...

I mean, at the end of the day, Matthew wasn't going to sign an extension out of Calgary.

That is an extended version of a trade request, and Brady outright asked for a trade request.

Well, I just think it's the cycle of the teams that they're requesting a trade from.

And Calgary didn't look like they were very close at that point when Matthew left.

And similarly in Ottawa, I think – I mean, the thing that struck me when we were interviewing Brady to Chuck and Matthew to Chuck – during their draft years is how incredibly open they were and welcoming and would love to go and play in Canada.

I mean, Matthew played in London and had great success there.

Big, big missing piece on that group.

As we know with Kachuk moving down to Florida.

Here's Jordan Spence right off the draw.

Ottawa look to get it set up.

Maybe I'm wrong.

I know they're happy to get rid of Kachuk, and maybe that just improves the morale of that team, which could go a long way.

Honestly, it could.

It could.

Yeah.

Speaking of which, did you see that picture of Brady Kachuk that went viral? Oh, man.

Poor guy.

But coming back to the abs though, man.

But what if all three of them go to Vancouver instead?

What if they go to St. Louis? What if they meet in St.

Louis and they take the Kachuk spot and then they just kick Keith's jersey out of the rafters and it becomes Hughes City? What would you think about that?

What if they all went to Florida, and then the Hughes and the Kachukses all played together?

I think they can.

I mean, I think, look, obviously Brady Kachuk is a hell of a player.

But at the end of the day, it's just one guy.

So they got some good pieces.

I'm sure at some point we're probably going to do the playoffs or not for the Canadian teams.

I'm a little undecided on Ottawa right now.

But I don't think it's the end of the world that Kachuk is gone, if that makes sense.

But yeah, I don't know.

Hey, look, you, you guys are getting some heat for your NHL top 50 players.

Brady Tkachuk isn't on it.

it.How come?

[sighs] I don't know.

Mm-hmm

... you know, seven minutes into the game against Nashville.

Then him getting traded to Florida, you're sitting there going, "Where's he gonna fit in that lineup? Is he gonna be a top 50 player, or is he gonna kinda melt into how Florida plays?" Now, full dis- disclosure, I watched Brady play last night, and the brothers Tkachuk were up to their old-

Yeah

opportunity, get it in there.

Brady, he scores! Brady Kachuk, the Florida Panther, snaps home his first goal.

There it is, Michael, the first of seemingly many to come.

Matthew to Brady into the back of the net, as I'm sure it has a little bit of something to do with what you're doing out in St. Louis.

But the Kachuk brothers, we are just around the corner from one of the most violent and fascinating brother meetups potentially in NHL history.

Well, when they grew up, they broke so many windows.

that their parents had to call the people at the arena where the Blues played and have them come down and install plexiglass in the house, in the basement, so they would stop breaking windows.

I mean, if you go back to 96 and we saw it in Montreal, the USA winning the World Cup and what I would argue was the greatest collection of American talent that we've ever seen.

Was it the slash on Demidov last year and the feistiness? We'll see.

Maybe without Kachuk there, this is a different...

They're still going to do their thing.

Okay.

They were sitting in the box together.

Yeah, Barkoff got run.

And listen, Brady Kachuk did what...

I'm not a big, big fan of his game.