It’s incredible when great hockey players have kids that also make it to the NHL.
There are plenty of examples of how talent runs in the family, like The Hulls: Bobby and Brett, the Howes: Gordie and his sons Mark and Marty, and, of course, the Tkachuks.
Keith Tkachuk was a great player in the NHL who played 18 seasons with the Winnipeg Jets, Phoenix Coyotes, St. Louis Blues, and Atlanta Thrashers.
He is one of five American-born players to score 500 goals and is renowned as one of the best power forwards of all time.
Today, his two sons, Matthew and Brady, are both star players for the Florida Panthers and Ottawa Senators.
And it’s no coincidence the two got so good at the game.
When Matthew and Brady were growing up, hockey was everything in the family, and when Keith was a guest on TSN 1200 some years ago, he shared a great story that proved just that.
When Keith played with the St. Louis Blues, the boys loved playing hockey, even indoors. But that also came at a cost.
Keith said both boys would break their living room window with hockey pucks. He eventually grew tired of constantly fixing their window, but he had a solution.
There are many perks to being a professional hockey player, and connections are one of them.
Keith Tkachuk simply called in the Blues’ arena guys so they could install plexiglass in front of their regular window.
If you have kids who love hockey, you probably had a similar problem yourself. Pucks are hard, and things tend to get broken now and then.
But if you’re lucky enough, you might just know an arena guy or two who could fix the problem for you. And who knows how good Matthew and Brady would’ve become if it wasn’t for the fact that they could keep on playing, even indoors, without any risk of breaking a window?
