Johnny Gaudreau’s Spouse Having ‘Laborious Time’ as Daughter Nears 2nd Birthday

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 during 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 the display screen. His greatest fan.”

As Meredith defined, Noa and her dad “cherished one another a lot” and she or he “even has the identical freckle as him on her proper cheek.”

“And as she approaches turning 2 I’ve been instructed their personalities are attending to be an increasing number of comparable ❤️ and I can’t anticipate that to proceed,” she concluded the publish.

In a follow-up clip from the identical interview, during which Johnny defined that “an important 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 need to say that watching these movies has me feeling so grateful however to be trustworthy I by no means as soon as didn’t really feel just like the luckiest most grateful woman on the planet for the reason that 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 proper husband.”

In a last Instagram publish, Meredith shared an interview clip of Johnny talking about Sean Monahan, his shut good friend 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 stated. “Noa loves cheering for Uncle Sean too. Wishing 23 a superb coaching camp and may’t wait to cheer you on.”

Meredith and Johnny are mother and father 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 anticipating one other baby along with her late husband subsequent yr. She stated 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 may even maintain a second of silence earlier than the group’s first house preseason sport and could have a 50/50 raffle all through the preseason to learn the John and Matthew Gaudreau Basis.