The Ottawa Senators are reportedly sending their captain Brady Tkachuk to the Florida Panthers for the 9th overall pick and 25th overall pick this year, the Panthers 2029 First and a second round pick in 2030.
The Panthers have the 9th pick in the draft and acquired the 26th pick earlier today.
Tkachuk will join his brother Matthew in Florid and would have had to waive his no-move clause to join the Panthers.
Tkachuk has long been rumored to be a target of Chris Drury and the Rangers.
Pierre LeBrun indicates that Tkachuk gave the Senators a list of four teams, Florida, Carolina, Vegas and Minnesota.
Adam Rotter: When the Panthers acquired the 26th pick earlier today it seemed like they weren’t going to hold onto it but I figured it was probably going to be used to help get them Dylan Larkin from Detroit. Instead they pull off a massive blockbuster.
With all the noise surrounding that report of the Rangers interest in Tkachuk and the Senators owner calling it “soft tampering” it’s hard to imagine that Ottawa would have traded him to the Rangers, but the Rangers could have put together a very similar offer. Whether it would be worth it for the Rangers to package #5, #26 and future picks for Tkachuk is another story. It may not have mattered since early reporting indicates that the Rangers were not on the list that Tkachuk provided of teams he wanted to be traded to.