Tkachuks will be the fifth brother pair to suit up together for Florida
NHL PR says Brady and Matthew join the Staals, Bures, Boqvists and Nortons, and they already shared a goal and a penalty box.
Brady and Matthew Tkachuk are about to join a short list. Per NHL Public Relations, as noted by Heavy, they'll become the fifth set of brothers to play a regular-season game together for the Florida Panthers. The others: Eric and Marc Staal, Pavel and Valeri Bure, Adam and Jesper Boqvist, and Brad and Jeff Norton.
They didn't wait for October to make it look natural. In Sunday's preseason win over Carolina, Brady scored Florida's first goal on the power play off a feed from Matthew, per Florida Hockey Now. Later they shared the penalty box. Brady went for fighting Charles Alexis Legault. Matthew went for unsportsmanlike conduct.
Ferda read: the Bures had the flash and the Staals had the size, but neither pair had this much shared snarl. Two brothers who'll both drop the gloves for the same room is a different kind of family business.