It may be the one time in his National Hockey League career that Brady Tkachuk put himself in a sticky situation.

The Ottawa Senators captain can now laugh about a prank that he tried to pull on alternate captain Claude Giroux a couple of years ago that went terribly wrong, but it was no laughing matter at the time.

In his latest book, Certified Beauties , which went on sale Tuesday, TSN’s James Duthie, an Ottawa native, revealed a story about the time Tkachuk tried to get payback on the veteran Giroux by cutting his sticks before a game against the St. Louis Blues a couple of years ago.

A video trailer to promote the new book was posted on Duthie’s social media accounts on Wednesday , which showed Giroux breaking his stick trying to leave the Ottawa zone against the Blues and then

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