Meredith Gaudreau, the widow of Johnny Gaudreau, is adjusting to life with out the late NHL star.
On Friday, Sept. 20, Meredith posted three interview clips of Johnny on Instagram, together with one through which he spoke about turning into a brand new father with native community WBNS in October 2022.
Sharing the throwback footage, Meredith wrote that she’s “having a tough time” as their daughter Noa’s second birthday approaches within the coming weeks. Johnny and his brother Matthew Gaudreau had been killed on Aug. 29, when an alleged drunk driver crashed into them on their bikes in Oldmans Township, New Jersey. (Johnny was 31 and Matthew was 29.)
“She loves watching movies of daddy earlier than mattress particularly her requests for ‘daddy hockey’ which led me to those movies,” Meredith wrote of Noa. “She loves watching him play and cheering for him by means of the display. His largest fan.”
As Meredith defined, Noa and her dad “beloved one another a lot” and he or she “even has the identical freckle as him on her proper cheek.”
“And as she approaches turning 2 I’ve been informed their personalities are attending to be increasingly more related ❤️ and I can’t watch for that to proceed,” she concluded the submit.
In a follow-up clip from the identical interview, through which Johnny defined that “crucial factor” to him was being close to his household when it got here to the group he performed for, Meredith elaborated on her admiration for her husband.
“My good husband. I wish to say that watching these movies has me feeling so grateful however to be sincere I by no means as soon as didn’t really feel just like the luckiest most grateful lady on the earth because the day I met him,” Meredith wrote in her second caption. “Movies like this [are] why. I like you a lot John. Thanks for being the right husband.”
In a remaining Instagram submit, Meredith shared an interview clip of Johnny talking about Sean Monahan, his shut pal and a fellow NHL participant. The pair had been teammates on the Calgary Flames for eight seasons earlier than Johnny signed with the Columbus Blue Jackets in 2022.
“Watching Sean put on CBJ is one thing I do know John all the time all the time needed,” Meredith mentioned. “Noa loves cheering for Uncle Sean too. Wishing 23 coaching camp and may’t wait to cheer you on.”
Meredith and Johnny are dad and mom to daughter Noa, who’s nearing her second birthday, and son Johnny, 7 months. Throughout Johnny’s memorial service earlier this month, Meredith introduced that she’s expecting another child together with her late husband subsequent yr. She mentioned that creating “a household of 5” is the “final blessing.”
“How fortunate am I to be the mom of John’s three infants? Our final one being a blessing and so particular regardless of these troublesome circumstances,” Meredith said.
Earlier this week, the Columbus Blue Jackets introduced that its gamers will put on stickers on their helmets and patches on their uniforms honoring Johnny this season.
The group can even maintain a second of silence earlier than the group’s first residence preseason recreation and could have a 50/50 raffle all through the preseason to profit the John and Matthew Gaudreau Basis.