NHL star Johnny Gaudreau’s spouse welcomed a child boy on April 1, greater than 7 months after the hockey participant was killed in a bicycle crash.
“I had our third baby! … Another baby boy,” Meredith Gaudreau wrote in a Monday Instagram put up. She introduced she was pregnant at her husband’s funeral in September.
The child is called Carter Michael Gaudreau and shares the identical center identify as his father.
“He looks exactly like his daddy, too,” she wrote. “I love you so much my baby! We are going to have so much fun. I can’t wait to give you the best life, my special boy forever.”
Johnny Gaudreau and his brother, Matthew, had been fatally struck whereas they had been bicycling at about 8:19 p.m. on Aug. 29, 2024, in Oldmans Township, New Jersey, about 30 miles exterior of Philadelphia. Johnny Gaudreau performed for the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Calgary Flames.
The hockey neighborhood is mourning the deaths of NHL star Johnny Gaudreau and his brother Matthew, who had been killed Thursday night time by a suspected drunk driver
The brothers had been on the town to be groomsmen of their sister’s wedding ceremony, which was later postponed to July 11 in Philadelphia.
Sean Higgins was arrested in reference to the crash. He was suspected of driving beneath the affect of alcohol and was charged with two counts of demise by auto.
In a court docket submitting in February, attorneys for Higgins argued that he was being unfairly prosecuted and alleged that Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau had been extra impaired than he was on the time of the crash.
