Senators’ Brady Tkachuk day-to-day with upper-body injury

Ottawa Senators captain Brady Tkachuk will not be in the lineup Tuesday versus the Atlantic Division rival Buffalo Sabres as he is considered day-to-day with an upper-body injury, Senators head coach Travis Green confirmed per TSN’s Claire Hanna.

On the season, Tkachuk has made 71 appearances with the Senators in which he has collected 29 goals and 26 assists to sit third in team scoring with 55 points. Beyond his success with the Senators this season, the 25-year-old native of Scottsdale, Ariz., also starred with Team USA at the 4 Nations Face-Off where alongside brother Matthew Tkachuk of the Florida Panthers he put up three goals in four games before falling to Canada in the championship final.

Originally chosen fourth overall by the Senators in the 2018 NHL Draft, Tkachuk has since skated in seven seasons and 511 career contests with Ottawa in which he has amassed 191 goals and 213 assists for 404 points. On three occasions, Tkachuk has tallied 30 or more goals, highlighted by the 2022-23 campaign in which he reached a career-high 83 points counting 35 goals and 48 assists coming in 82 games.

Tkachuk has yet to skate in the Stanley Cup Playoffs but appears poised to do so this spring with the Senators sitting in the Eastern Conference’s first wildcard seed with a 39-28-6 record and 84 points. The Senators have not participated in the Stanley Cup Playoffs since 2017 when the club fell to the eventual champion Pittsburgh Penguins in the seventh game of the Eastern Conference Final.

The Senators enter Tuesday’s contest with six wins and 13 points in their past 10 games punctuated by Sunday’s 1-0 overtime loss to the Penguins.

For Tkachuk, per PuckPedia, the power forward is the fourth year of a seven-year pact that carries an annual average value of $8,205,714.