The Ottawa Senators will have to right the ship without their captain. Article content

Senators coach Travis Green didn’t provide an update on the status of top winger Brady Tkachuk on Thursday morning, but repeated that he won’t be back anytime soon , with league executives telling Postmedia they’d be surprised if he didn’t need to go under the knife. Article content Article content

Those executives say the normal recovery period from the type of surgery Tkachuk is facing is normally eight weeks, but they cautioned that hand injuries can be unpredictable.

The team’s captain travelled to New York City to meet with hand surgeon Dr. Robert Hotchkiss on Wednesday to get a second opinion on whether the hand injury he suffered against the Nashville Predators in Monday’s 4-1 loss at

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