Late NHL star Johnny Gaudreau's wife announces birth of son 7 months after his tragic death

Meredith Gaudreau, the woman of NHL prima Johnny Gaudreau, announced the commencement of their 3rd kid connected societal media this week. 

The quality came much than 7 months aft helium and his brother, Matthew, were fatally struck by a conveyance successful New Jersey portion riding bicycles the time earlier their sister’s wedding. 

Meredith announced the commencement of Carter Michael Gaudreau successful an Instagram station connected Monday. He was calved connected April 1 and shares the aforesaid mediate sanction arsenic his father. 

Johnny Gaudreau of the Blue Jackets reacts aft scoring the game-tying extremity against the Washington Capitals astatine Nationwide Arena connected Jan. 31, 2023, successful Columbus, Ohio. (Ben Jackson/NHLI via Getty Images)

"I emotion you truthful overmuch my baby! We are going to person truthful overmuch fun. I can’t hold to springiness you the champion life, my peculiar lad forever," she wrote successful the caption of a photograph that pictured her successful the infirmary furniture with her newborn son.

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"John, convey you for giving maine our beauteous family. We emotion u, Daddy and miss you truthful much." 

Columbus Blue Jackets halfway Sean Monahan holds Johnny Gaudreau’s kid alongside Meredith Gaudreau and household arsenic a banner is raised successful grant of Johnny earlier the location opener astatine Nationwide Arena connected Oct. 15, 2024. (Samantha Mada-Imagn Images)

Johnny, 31, and Matthew, 29, were acceptable to beryllium groomsmen astatine their sister’s wedding successful Philadelphia successful precocious August. According to instrumentality enforcement astatine the time, the Gaudreau brothers were cycling connected a roadworthy connected Aug. 29, 2024, erstwhile a suspected drunken driver, heading successful the aforesaid direction, attempted to walk 2 different vehicles and struck the brothers from behind, sidesplitting them. 

Sean Higgins, 44, was arrested and charged with 2 counts of aggravated manslaughter, 2 counts of vehicular homicide, grounds tampering and leaving the country of an accident. 

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Police besides noted that Higgins had a humor intoxicant level of .087, supra New Jersey's ineligible bounds to drive, and that helium failed a tract sobriety test. Police besides said Higgins was driving aggressively, which included speeding up to thrust astir aggregate vehicles, erstwhile helium deed the Gaudreaus.

Higgins pleaded not blameworthy to the charges successful January. In aboriginal March, his defence attorneys filed a question that the indictment against him beryllium dismissed. 

Johnny Gaudreau's woman Meredith walks retired onto the crystal with her children and a household subordinate for a memorial for Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau earlier the location opener astatine Nationwide Arena connected Oct. 15, 2024. (Samantha Mada-Imagn Images)

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Johnny and Meredith Gaudreau shared 2 different children, their 2-year-old girl Noa, and Johnny Jr., who turned 1 successful February. Madeline Gaudreau, Matthew’s wife, announced the commencement of their archetypal kid successful December. 

Fox News’ Scott Thompson contributed to this report. 

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