Center Logan Brown, the son of former NHL puck-moving defenseman Jeff Brown, is also playing in the game, along with power forward Max Jones, the son of former NHLer Brad Jones and Luke McInnis, the son of former NHL player Marty McInnis. Others: Graham McPhee (son of George McPhee), Tage Thompson (son of Brent Thompson), Mitch Eliot (son of Darren Eliot) and Drake Rymsha (son of Andrew Rymsha).
Tkachuk, the son of former NHL player Keith Tkachuk, will play for Team Roenick. The 6-1, 195-pound left wing had 38 goals and 96 points in 65 games with the NTDP U-18 team last season. He also had a tournament-high 10 assists in seven games for the U.S. at the 2015 IIHF World U-18 Championship.
“There’s really not any negatives about that,” said Matthew Tkachuk, who plays forward for the Ontario Hockey League’s London Knights alongside Max Jones. “I do hear people comparing, ‘You’re like him,’ or, ‘You don’t play like him,’ and that is kind of a challenge, but overall it’s just been great having a guy like that around, a guy who’s been through it, who knows the game.”
The son of former NHL All-Star Keith Tkachuk is about to follow in his father’s footsteps and embark on what many expect to be his own storied career. Matthew Tkachuk is a top 2016 NHL Draft prospect (we ranked him fourth overall in our first 2016 NHL Mock Draft) who is expected to be a top-five draft selection.
Tkachuk, a 6-foot, 188-pound left wing, will play for London of the Ontario Hockey League this season. Playing with the NTDP last season, Tkachuk had 38 goals and 96 points in 65 games.
Had Matthew Tkachuk been named after his father, he’d be going through life as Keith Tkachuk Jr. While that’s not the case, you’d be well within your rights to call Matthew Keith Tkachuk 2.0.
Fifteen years ago, Ryan MacInnis, Matthew Tkachuk and Dominic Turgeon ran around the bowels of Scottrade Center like they owned the place, playing mini-sticks and generally creating havoc in the dressing room where their fathers — Keith Tkachuk, Al MacInnis and Pierre Turgeon — were all members of the St. Louis Blues.
Matthew Tkachuk, the son of former NHLer Keith Tkachuk, is one of the top prospects eligible for the 2016 Draft. Playing with the U.S. National Team Development Program last season, he will also be playing for a new team in 2015-16. That team will be the London Knights of the OHL. Hence, the connection begins.
Left wing Matthew Tkachuk is a regular chip off the old block.
Tkachuk, son of former NHL player Keith Tkachuk and a potential top-five pick in the 2016 NHL Draft, had three goals and two assists for the United States white team in a 10-4 exhibition win against Sweden on Monday during USA Hockey’s national junior evaluation camp at Lake Placid Olympic Center’s 1980 Herb Brooks Arena.
He isn’t the only prospect that will have a chance to make the team next year.
MacInnis, a product of St.Louis, Missouri, will play with Dvorak, along with Fischer, on “Team Blue” at the USA Evaluation Camp.
