Four games into March, the Ottawa Senators have kept their 2025 playoff push alive. After Saturday's 4-3 overtime win against the New York Rangers, the Ottawa Senators have a 32-25-5 record this season.
With the Senators currently having 69 points ahead of tonight's game against the Detroit Red Wings at 7:30 p.m. ET, the Senators are in the second Wild Card spot, one point behind the Columbus Blue Jackets for the first Wild Card spot.
Not many people would've expected the Senators to be in a playoff position in March, but the team is getting more believers with every game played. One of those believers is a former Toronto Maple Leaf that is all for seeing the Senators make the 2025 playoffs with their captain leading the helm.
Ex-Maple Leaf Carlo Colaiacovo is all for Tkachuk to lead Sens to 2025 playoffs
In his 13-year NHL career, former NHL defenseman Carlo Colaiacovo spent six seasons with the Senators' most hated rival, the Maple Leafs. However, even with being a former Maple Leaf, Colaiacovo is pulling for the Senators to have success this season.
Following Brady Tkachuk's game-winning goal in overtime against the Rangers on Saturday, Colaiacovo tweeted how much he is pulling for the Senators to make the 2025 playoffs with Tkachuk being the captain, and the former Maple Leaf is "all for it."
Brady Tkachuk is gonna will his team into the playoffs and I’m all for it #GoSensGo
— Carlo Colaiacovo (@CarloColaiacovo) March 8, 2025
For a former Maple Leaf to be pulling for the Senators to make the playoffs may sound shocking for some, but Colaiacovo knows an important captain when he sees it. Tkachuk has been one of the biggest reasons why the Senators are in the position they're in.
Tkachuk is second on the Senators this season with 49 points, but leads the team with 26 goals. Tkachuk has been a clutch player on the Senators this season. Five of Tkachuk's goals this season have been game-winning goals. Tkachuk's overtime winner against the Rangers was his second goal of the game, and it came 33 seconds into overtime.
The Senators with Tkachuk leading the helm has them knocking on the playoff door for the first time since 2017. Earning seven out of a possible eight points in March has helped the Senators have a real chance to make the 2025 playoffs, but tonight's game against the Red Wings, a team that trails the Senators by three points in the Eastern Conference, is another pivotal game to win.
In two games against the Red Wings this season, the Senators have earned three of a possible four points.