Red Light newsletter 🏒 | This is The Athletic’s hockey newsletter. Sign up here to receive Red Light directly in your inbox.Good morning to everyone except people who used that one cheap breakaway move in NHL ’94.Were you expecting a quiet week once the games ended? Fool! Instead, we’ve got the aftermath of a blockbuster trade and a new class of Hall of Famers to sort through.Let’s get into it.(Steph Chambers / Getty Images)A very Brady blockbusterFans in Ottawa had heard it for years: Your captain will abandon you. Sure, he might say the right things. And he did sign a seven-year extension in 2021 that ostensibly committed him to the team for the long term. But we all knew how this would end: with Brady bolting for Florida, where he could wear flip-flops to practice, golf on off days and play with his brother, Matthew. The Senators front office denied it. Ownership too. And even Tkachuk himself expressed frustration at the constant rumors. Where were people getting these wacky ideas?What happened next will shock you.Or maybe it won’t. Maybe it’s exactly the outcome that felt inevitable all along. Sunday’s trade came out of nowhere in the sense that the teams involved had managed to keep it largely quiet, but nobody was all that surprised. Brady to Florida. Of course.Brady Tkachuk to the Florida PanthersSean McIndoe and Sean GentilleSo, now what? With plenty to unpack here, I think there are three burning questions:1. What do the Senators do now?I don’t mean that question existentially, although there’s a bit of that hanging over everything, too. For now, let’s focus on what the Senators do with their sudden haul of picks after adding Nos. 9 and 25 to their No. 32 pick this year. Whether you like the trade or not, it’s rare for one team to acquire three first-round picks this quickly (Ottawa also got a conditional 2029 first-rounder in the deal).Ottawa could simply use them, of course, rebuilding a prospect pipeline and stocking the cupboard for years to come. But is that the right approach for a team that recently made it back to the playoffs after seven years in the wilderness? With a frustrated fanbase and a division that’s looking brutal, there will be pressure on president/GM Steve Staios to flip at least some of those picks for immediate help. And if he does, that means any evaluation of where the Senators stand in the post-Brady era is still very much in “to be determined” mode.2. Just how good are the Panthers about to be? They landed a star without giving up anyone on their roster. They’ll have Aleksander Barkov back and healthy. And they’ll be rested for the first time in years. So, where do you slot them in for next year? Just about everyone had them back in the playoffs, even before the Tkachuk deal. But are they in the mix with the Montreal Canadiens and Tampa Bay Lightning for home ice? The Atlantic Division favorites? The best team in the East? Should we expect to see them right back in the Stanley Cup Final for the fourth time in five years?And maybe of more immediate interest: Does this move put an end to the Connor Hellebuyck speculation? In theory, it should, given the Panthers’ diminished trade capital. Then again, they still don’t have a goalie, so … something has to give, right?3. Does the NHL have a Canadian crisis on its hands? If you enjoy some heavy-handed symbolism, you surely made note of this trade coming just days after we found out “Hockey Night in Canada” is no more. Tkachuk joins Quinn Hughes as the second franchise player to work his way out from a Canadian team in the last year, with Hellebuyck in Winnipeg and Auston Matthews in Toronto still potentially in play. Calgary is already rebuilding. Edmonton is on permanent Connor McDavid watch. Basically, all of the country’s teams are in some form of a mess right now, with only Montreal fans feeling much optimism.