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Ryan Getzlaf shows off chicken coop he’s built, watches son drive golf cart into tree during NHL teleconference

By Ian Oland

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March 27, 2020 5:07 pm

The NHL held more videoconferences with reporters on Friday and the one featuring Pacific Division players Ryan Getzlaf, Anze Kopitar, Logan Couture, and Marc-Andre Fleury, got wild. Literally.

“I’m here with my wife, four kids, two dogs, and soon to be chickens,” Getzlaf said.

After being asked what he’s been up to while being quarantined, Getzlaf took his laptop, walked out the door, and showed off a chicken coop he built.

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Can’t say I was expecting that.

“I’ve spent the last three days building a chicken coop in the backyard,” Getzlaf said. “The wife wanted eggs the other day and we had no eggs, so we borrowed from the neighbor who had chickens. And all of a sudden, we were having them. She just ordered six of them.”

Later in the teleconference, Getzlaf’s eyes got big as he watched something happening outside his house.

“Oh boy, I just saw my nine-year-old drive a golf cart into a tree,” Getzlaf said. “That’s not ideal at the moment. He’ll be fine, right?”

“What’s the worse that can happen?” Kopitar said laughing.

Eventually, Getalaf turned serious.

“We’re not going to complain about pausing our season when there are people dying and life is going on as it is,” Getzlaf said. “We’ve had lockouts before. It’s just another thing in our life we have to deal with professionally. But the biggest worry for us is keeping our families safe.”

Hopefully, Getzlaf takes the golf cart keys away from his son to do just that.

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