Brady Tkachuk can only play the role of spectator right now.

But the Ottawa Senators captain still is trying to lend a hand to his teammates while recovering from surgery to repair torn ligaments in his thumb suffered on Oct. 13 against the Nashville Predators.

The timeline for Tkachuk’s recovery is six to eight weeks, but he’s not the kind of guy who can sit around and do nothing, so that past couple of games he has tried to act as another set of eyes from the press box.

If he can’t be getting assists on the ice, Tkachuk doesn’t mind trying to give some assistance off the ice as the Senators make the climb back towards respectability after a difficult start to the year.

Speaking in the second intermission on during the club’s 7-1 victory over the Boston Bruins, Tkachuk told play-by-pl

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