Personal Life
Tkachuk has been married to Chantal Oster, whom he met in Winnipeg since February 28, 1997, and has three children, named Matthew, Braeden, and Taryn. He is still a fan favorite in St. Louis and is an investor in sports talk radio station KFNS (590 AM, St. Louis MO). He is an assistant coach with the St. Louis Blues Peewee AAA hockey team, his son Braeden plays on the team
Tkachuk is Irish on his mother's side, and is cousin to NHL player Tom Fitzgerald, whom he grew up with. When asked about the derivation of his surname, Tkachuk was unsure, suggesting it could either be "Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, one of those."
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