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Florida Panthers<\/a> star and Team USA Olympic hockey gold medalist Matthew Tkachuk<\/a> recently announced that he and his wife, Ellie Tkachuk, are expecting their first child. <\/p>\n The couple shared the exciting news during an appearance on the \u201cHang Out with Sean Hannity\u201d podcast. They\u2019ve chosen an \u201cold-school approach\u201d by not finding out the baby\u2019s sex in advance, opting to keep it a surprise until birth. <\/p>\n “We aren’t finding out,” he says, before noting he wasn’t originally on board with the plan,” he said. “We’re going old-school approach, which I wasn’t too fond of early, I will say, because it’s right there. All we have to do is look.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n <\/template><\/p>\n During the podcast, Matthew Tkachuk made an honest admission about wanting a baby boy:<\/p>\n “Yes, I mean, at some point, would definitely have to have a boy,” Tkachuk tells Hannity, 64. “I’ve been explaining to [my wife], because she has just a sister [and] no brothers … what youth hockey is like. And I think I’m more excited for youth hockey one day than my current hockey right now.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n His honest admission about hoping for a boy caused a stir online. One tweeted:<\/p>\n “Women\u2019s hockey just hit 100k players and one of the faces of the NHL is saying this. You can say you hung out with the women\u2019s team but that means literally nothing when you\u2019re essentially saying you won\u2019t be happy until you\u2019ve had a boy. Just mask-off misogyny.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n