Red Wings' Zetterberg and wife expecting first child

Don't think of it as losing a coach, we're gaining another little Detroit Red Wing.

Captain Henrik Zetterberg and wife Emma Andersson are expecting their first child.

"Yes, that is true," Zetterberg told Sweden's Sportbladet (via Google translate). "We get our first child in late summer.

"It is of course really fun. There will be a new chapter in life and we are very excited."

The couple currently is in Michigan. They plan on making their annual trip home to Sweden soon and then will return here for the birth.

Which will be a surprise — Zetterberg said they don't know if it's a boy or a girl.

Zetterberg and Andersson have been married since 2010. She was a model and reality TV host in Sweden.

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