Ottawa Senators captain Brady Tkachuk and his wife Emma have announced the birth of their child Ryder Keith Tkachuk.

Brady Tkachuk is a professional hockey player, a well-known public figure in the National Capital Region … and now a dad. The Ottawa Senators captain and his wife, Emma, announced the birth of their first child on Tuesday,

Brady Tkachuk just barely made the cutoff for this list, since he turns 25 in 13 days. I'm so glad he qualified one more time though, just to have this opportunity in this space to gush about our captain.

Given the Tkachuk family's high end hockey prowess, the new arrival has the natural bloodlines to be a player someday. But Ryder is already a great, thoughtful teammate, arriving