It has been a irritating season on the ice for the Ottawa Senators, and now the staff is coping with controversy off of it. After an unsubstantiated on-line rumor about goaltender Linus Ullmark’s depart of absence went viral, the staff issued a powerful assertion, and captain Brady Tkachuk railed towards those that gave it life.
On Dec. 28, the Senators introduced that Ullmark was taking a depart of absence for private causes. On Thursday, a salacious and unfounded rumor about Ullmark’s absence made its means round social media. The rumor gained sufficient traction that Senators common supervisor Steve Staios launched a scathing assertion during which he referred to as out “the bottom types of trolls and sick folks” for propagating it.
“Our group was extraordinarily upset to learn the fully fabricated and false tales which can be spreading round social media about our hockey membership. Linus is away from our staff for private causes and he has your entire group’s help. We requested that folks respect his privateness, however clearly that request was not heard by the bottom types of trolls and sick individuals who scour the web. We’re disgusted that outdoors forces are trying to disrupt our hockey membership. This assertion will put an finish to the ridiculous hypothesis that has unfold on-line.”
Following follow on Saturday morning, forward of the Senators’ recreation towards the Florida Panthers, Tkachuk was requested in regards to the rumor. The Ottawa captain supplied a fiery response.
“I am not gonna deceive you. It is fairly f—ing bullshit,” Tkachuk stated. “I do not assume anyone is fairly comfortable a couple of narrative being unfold like that. I believe it is OK to critique our on-ice efficiency, however when it will get into household, it is fairly f—ing bullshit. It is fairly embarrassing it received to the purpose that it did. I can let you know totally free, I am not comfortable about it.”
The Senators should do their greatest to tune out any distraction this has brought about as a result of they want two factors in a pivotal recreation towards the Panthers. Hours after Staios launched his assertion on Thursday, Ottawa was on the incorrect finish of a lopsided 8-2 rating towards the Colorado Avalanche for its third consecutive loss.
