Brady Tkachuk hurts himself while trying to crosscheck Jake Guentzel.

This will not go down as one of Brady Tkachuk's finest moments. 

The only game on the National Hockey League's schedule on Monday night was a matchup between the Ottawa Senators and the Pittsburgh Penguins and through the first period things were looking pretty rough for the Senators. The Senators coughed up two goals early giving the Penguins a 2 - 0 lead in the game and as if that was not bad enough they then lost forward Brady Tkachuk, albeit only briefly, to an injury on a rather ridiculous looking play. 

It was Tkachuk who was the aggressor in this incident as he skated up behind Pittsburgh Penguins forward Jake Guentzel and attempted to deliver what looked to be a relatively soft crosscheck to his back. When I say soft I do mean soft, so soft in fact that you could even call it a mere shove on the part of Tkachuk, but it was delivered with enough force to cause injury, at least a very minor one. The thing however is that it was not Guentzel who was hurt on the play but Tkachuk himself who went down to one knee in pain after his shove, presumably having injured his wrist in the process. Whatever part of the body that Tkachuk injured on the play it was somewhere in his left arm as he clutched it tightly to his body as he fell to the ice, and even seemed to be screaming in pain down on the ice. 

The whole thing looked rather serious given Tkachuk's body language here and those concerns were only made worse when the gritty Senators forward immediately made his way down the length of the bench and headed back into the Senators locker room. That was obviously not a good sign but luckily everyone's fears were dispelled when Tkachuk made his return to the Senators bench a short while later. He has returned to the ice and appears to be none the worse for wear, so either this was some kind of very minor injury or it is something that both he and the team's medical staff feel he can play through.