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Meredith Gaudreau remains to be discovering methods to honor her late husband, NHL star Johnny Gaudreau.
Meredith, alongside along with her two kids, led her late husband’s former NHL workforce the Columbus Blue Jackets onto the ice forward of their matchup towards the Detroit Crimson Wings on Saturday, March 1.
Meredith — who wore a white Blue Jackets letterman-style jacket in honor of her husband — can also be pregnant with the pair’s third baby. Johnny and his brother Matthew Gaudreau have been killed by an alleged drunk driver in August 2024 whereas they have been biking in Oldmans Township, New Jersey, simply sooner or later earlier than their sister was scheduled to get married.
Johnny’s teammates additionally honored the late left winger by sporting Gaudreau’s “signature match” — a blue hoodie, black pants, black Ugg boots and a black cap — forward of the match as a part of the pre-game festivities. “His fashion was undoubtedly extra distinctive, extra laidback,” the workforce’s defenseman Zach Werenski stated through NHL.com on March 1. “He wore the identical stuff on a regular basis. I believe that’s what made him in a way a particular individual, how laid again he was. A part of that was his fashion. We simply thought it was a terrific thought to decorate like him.”

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Meredith was a part of the plan to honor Gaudreau through his signature look from the start, stated the workforce’s captain Boone Jenner. “She helped us so much with footage, looking for his signature Johnny match,” Jenner defined on the positioning on March 1. “Now we have to thank her so much.”
Meredith purchased the sweatshirts for her husband’s former teammates to put on from the Avalon Surf Store in Avalon, New Jersey, the place the Gaudreau household used to benefit from the seaside collectively.
“He wore that sweatshirt so much; only a easy hoodie, easy sweats,” Jenner additionally stated. “He’s obtained the Ugg boots that he’d all the time put on within the winter. ‘’Mer purchased him that Amiri hat with the three stars and he wore it on a regular basis. It’s fairly humorous, those we’re sporting are black, however his was fairly beat down with sweat stains.”
“After we see these outfits we consider him and it reminds us of him,” he continued. “It’s very particular to us. We needed to ensure we put the precise items in to honor him the precise approach, the entire match. I believe it’s a great tribute the best way it’s finished. It’s not hockey tools, simply road garments, extra the individual he was and the nice recollections now we have.”
Meredith celebrated the pair’s son’s birthday on Saturday, February 22. “Pleased 1st Birthday to our child boy! We love you a lot, Child Johnny! Already so robust and so particular,” she wrote through Instagram. “‘I can’t consider you gave me a boy,’ is all John stated again and again when child Johnny arrived. I couldn’t cease gazing how completely happy John was — among the finest moments of my life.”
“Child Johnny you might be Mommy’s rock and Noa’s finest good friend. All of Daddy’s accomplishments don’t examine to the satisfaction and pleasure he had in being your father,” she added.