Dans Le Vestiaire avec Nicolas St-Pierre · 94,5 Unique FM

Renaud Lavoie, Maxime Jolicoeur, Martin Villeneuve, Mike Laviolle et plus | 02/04/2026

·1 hr 58 min·9 clips

Renaud Lavoie asks whether Brady Tkachuk is a 'very good captain' by comparing him directly to Nick Suzuki.

1. Dans Le Vestiaire avec Nicolas St-Pierre covers the Ottawa Senators' must-win April 2 matchday against the Buffalo Sabres, with the episode dominated by fallout from the Tkachuk family podcast. 2. Host Nicolas St-Pierre is joined by NHL insider Renaud Lavoie, Senators beat reporter Maxime Jolicoeur, and journalist François Brault covering the Gatineau Olympics. 3. The central question of the episode is whether a National Hockey League captain should have his own podcast after the Brady-Matthew-Keith Tkachuk 'Wingman' podcast produced an incendiary clip. 4. The episode plays the specific clip from 'Wingman' where Keith Tkachuk says 'holy Christ this whole team, my pinky hurts, I'm out for six days,' with Brady Tkachuk audibly smirking without denying the implied target. 5. The host and Renaud Lavoie both interpret the smirk as a tell: the father was likely commenting on a specific player's injury absence, with widespread speculation pointing to goaltender Linus Ullmark. 6. Travis Green held his first media availability since the Tampa Bay loss, defending Ullmark by saying 'he's our guy' and 'he needed a rest, and that's fine,' while explaining he removed Ullmark after the Florida game because of the team in front of him, not the goaltender. 7. Green also addresses the white noise around the club, telling reporters: 'our focus is to not let any of that creep into our room' and saying the best remedy is winning tonight. 8. Renaud Lavoie says he would 'put some of the blame on the coach' who 'put his goaltender under the bus last week,' but calls the situation 'the worst scenario for the Senators' and says it comes down to organizational culture. 9. Lavoie draws a direct comparison between Brady Tkachuk and Montreal Canadiens captain Nick Suzuki, asking whether you ever see Suzuki generating negative attention and answering that it is because Suzuki handles internal issues before they become external. 10. Lavoie argues that a real captain speaks to coaches daily, is a first point of contact for teammates' problems, and represents the organization—and that Brady Tkachuk 'opened a door that should never even be slightly ajar.' 11. Lavoie speculates that Michael Andlauer, who has a minority stake in the Canadiens and knows Suzuki, must be watching and thinking 'I'm dreaming,' and would already be telling his GM to stop the situation. 12. Renaud Lavoie also noted that Keith Tkachuk had previously been in the ear of Ottawa Senators coaches during an earlier period, raising a question about how much family influence continues today. 13. The Senators are at 90 points heading into the game, with the New York Rangers at 89 points in the first wild-card spot; Jake Sanderson is in a yellow non-contact jersey and his return is uncertain. 14. Lavoie also discusses Alexis Lafrenière's 19-point surge in 16 games with the Rangers after receiving more ice time, saying he is being used properly for the first time and may force the Rangers to consider a contract extension. 15. François Brault reports live from the Gatineau Olympics game, where Dylan Alley scored twice for a 4-goal, 2-game stretch to force Game 5, while Simon-Xavier Cyr scored the winning goal. 16. Brault says the doubt is 'definitely installed' in the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies after three consecutive dominant games by the Olympics, and predicts the series will go to Game 7. 17. Maxime Jolicoeur expresses 'more than small' apprehensions about the Senators' game, praises Green's composed media performance, and says he feels sympathy for Green being in the 'eye of the cyclone' after nearly being a Jack Adams candidate the previous week. 18. Jolicoeur closes by saying if the Senators lose tonight, 'the last thing I want to see is clips of a Tkachuk brothers podcast' and gives a direct 'no' to whether a NHL captain should have a podcast. 19. Fans of the Ottawa Senators, NHL locker room culture debates, and Quebec junior hockey will find the episode most engaging. 20. Listeners outside the Ottawa sports market or who need English-language content will find the episode too locally and linguistically specific.

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