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Elliotte Friedman was on Calgary’s Sportsnet 960 on Friday morning.

As part of a larger conversation on the Anaheim Ducks:

“There’s two things going on.

“No. 1, I had a chance to have a long talk yesterday with a Western Conference coach. I was chatting with him on something. They’re a team that’s played Anaheim a couple of times this year. I just said, ‘What is it there?’

“He just goes, ‘Getzlaf is a step slow. He’s a step behind all the time.’

“I said, ‘Why?’

“He goes, ‘I don’t know. I don’t understand it.’

“We don’t know if he’s hurt. Or if this is a one-year thing. Or maybe he’s lost a step. I don’t know what it is.

“But this coach gave me a couple of shifts to watch and so I actually went back and watched them against his team. A play will go and a play will change directions and you see him, and he’s slow to react, or he’s way behind. It’s unbelievable to watch. I don’t know what’s going on there.

“They have said at several points and times this year after the appendix surgery that he is not hurt. I don’t know what it is then, because he’s just not himself.

(The conversation on the Ducks continues from there, with a shift to a focus on potential trades…)

Source: Sportsnet 960/ Transcript: Nichols