When looking at the smirk painted across the face of Brady Tkachuk, it’s not hard to realize why the Senators’ 20-year-old winger gets under the skin of so many of his opponents.
He surely did against the Rangers, who succumbed to his antics (and terrific play) by losing a 6-2 game to the Senators at the Garden on Monday night.
Rangers coach David Quinn knows Tkachuk well from their one year together at Boston University before Tkachuk was drafted with the No. 4-overall pick in 2018. But that didn’t make it any easier to swallow as Tkachuk picked up a goal and an assist, had a plus-three rating, and turned down a handful of offers to fight from Brendan Lemieux, eventually getting Lemieux tossed from the game late in the third period.