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,

Unless it's a Hyundai commercial, Ottawa Senators captain Brady Tkachuk doesn't like taking a backseat to anyone. Now, he'll happily do it every year on his birthday, which he now shares with his newborn child.

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.