Оттава Сенаторс багийн ахлагч асан Брэди Ткачукийг Флорида Пантерс руу солилцоогоор явуулсны дараа Тим Штюцле багийн ирээдүйн төлөвлөгөөндөө анхаарлаа хандуулж байна.
Зургаадугаар сарын 21-нд болсон солилцоогоор Оттава Сенаторс Брэди Ткачукийг Флорида Пантерс руу илгээж, оронд нь 2026 оны драфтын нэгдүгээр тойргийн гурван сонголт болон хоёрдугаар тойргийн нэг сонголтыг авсан юм. Энэхүү шилжилт нь багийн бүрэлдэхүүнд томоохон өөрчлөлт авчирсан ч Тим Штюцле багтаа үлдсэн тоглогчид болон шинээр нэгдсэн хүчээ ашиглан амжилтаа үргэлжлүүлэхэд бэлэн байгаагаа илэрхийлэв. Тухайлбал, баг Сан Хосе Шаркс багаас 23 настай довтлогч Уильям Эклундыг эгнээндээ нэгтгээд байна.
Өнгөрсөн улирлын плэй-оффын шатанд Каролина Харрикейнс багт хожигдсон Оттава Сенаторс энэ удаагийн улирлаас илүү өндөр үр дүн хүлээж байна. Тим Штюцле багийн ахлагч явсан Брэди Ткачукийн орон зайг нөхөх нь чухал ч, багийн дотоод уур амьсгал болон манлайлал хэвээр хадгалагдаж байгааг онцоллоо. Тэрээр 24 настай тоглогчийн хувьд багтайгаа таван жилийн гэрээтэй бөгөөд Оттава хотод үлдэж, багийнхаа төлөө зүтгэхийг хүсэж буй олон тоглогч байгаа нь ирээдүйд итгэх итгэлийг нэмэгдүүлж буйг дурджээ.
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MUNICH — While acknowledging the Ottawa Senators will miss Brady Tkachuk following the former captain’s ground-shaking request to be traded to the Florida Panthers earlier this offseason, Tim Stützle expressed confidence that the team can continue its upward trajectory without him.
“Now that everything’s happened, it’s been in the past and we’re just going to have to look forward,” Stützle told The Athletic at the NHL’s European Player Media Tour on Friday. “We’re going to miss the player, for sure, and the person. He was the one kind of taking me in at the start. It kind of came, and we have to figure it out and do what we can to make up for it.
“Every time you lose a player like Brady, he’s going to be missed on your team, but I think the additions we got are really good and I’m glad we got those guys and we can move on now and focus on what’s ahead.”
Tkachuk’s trade wish was granted on June 21 when the Senators sent him to Florida for three first-round draft picks and a second-rounder. The move not only reunited him with his brother Matthew, but it also landed him with an Atlantic Division rival that is one year removed from back-to-back Stanley Cups.
The Senators effectively decided to rip the Band-Aid off immediately by moving Tkachuk this summer rather than waiting to act until closer to his pending unrestricted free agency in 2028.
He was previously part of a young nucleus of players that was starting to bear fruit in Ottawa. The Senators drafted Tkachuk with the fourth pick in 2018, before taking Stützle and Jake Sanderson with the third and fifth picks in the 2020 draft. The team qualified for the playoffs in consecutive seasons before Tkachuk made it known to management he wanted out.
While the former captain’s decision was a bitter pill for Senators fans to swallow, Stützle didn’t take it personally.
“I mean, I’m not the GM or anything, I wasn’t in the meetings, I don’t know what happened, so I can’t really speak too much about it,” he said. “He was a friend of mine. He still is. Obviously, if you lose a guy you played with for five years, it’s always kind of a change of scenery.
“I wish him all the best, but I’m also happy that we have a lot of guys who want to be in Ottawa. And if that’s his decision, that’s his decision, I’m going to respect that obviously and we’re going to move on.”
Stützle has finished as Ottawa’s leading scorer in three of the last four seasons, and with Tkachuk gone, he is poised to become an even more central character to the franchise. The 24-year-old is under contract to the Senators for another five years and expressed confidence that the growth of the remaining players, coupled with a trade for 23-year-old forward William Eklund from San Jose with some of the assets Ottawa got back for Tkachuk, will allow the group to withstand the change.
“I think we’ve got some really good players,” Stützle said. “(We made) some really good additions, and also the leadership we have, obviously, besides our captain leaving. I think the leadership we had in the room before and the support group of Brady, I think, was really strong and still is really strong.
“I’m not concerned about that at all. I think we have a bunch of great leaders. No matter if someone’s wearing a letter or not, we’re a bunch of great guys.”
Furthermore, Stützle said, if needed, he’s confident he can step into even more of a leadership role.
He also believes the Senators are positioned to build on hard-won lessons from last season. The Senators were one of the NHL’s top teams in shot share, but needed to rally in the second half just to qualify for the playoffs — where they were swept by the eventual champion Carolina Hurricanes in a series that was much closer on the ice than it will look when recorded in the history books.
“It was a tight-fought series,” Stützle said. “I don’t think it was a 4-0 series. I still think they were the better team, and they deserved to win that series, but could we have won one or two games? Yeah probably. But we said that the year before (in Round 1 against the Toronto Maple Leafs), too, and at some point we’ve just got to have the results. We need the results.
“We’re going to do everything we can for sure.”
With two months to digest the Tkachuk news, Stützle sounded upbeat about the 2026-27 campaign heading into training camp. Looking down the roster, he sees a collection of players ready to pull in the same direction.
“I think we have a really fun group,” Stützle said. “Everybody’s really dialed and wants to get better every day. As long as you all go for the same goal, I think at some point you’re going to achieve it. I think also we have a lot of guys who want to be in Ottawa, so that’s what makes me excited.
“I’m excited for the future.”
