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Meredith Gaudreau Recalls Moment She Found Out Husband Johnny Had Died

Meredith Gaudreau reflects on Johnny Gaudreau’s death, grief and how the hockey community honored the late NHL player and his brother Matthew

I was keeled over for days sick to my stomach,” she wrote of the moment she found out Johnny had died in the letter, published in the Players’ Tribune on Thursday, June 12. “It’s been really hard watching hockey start up and seeing how different my life is now,” Meredith wrote via Instagram on Friday, September 20, alongside an old video interview featuring Johnny. After the accident, the hockey world rallied around the Gaudreau family, with Johnny’s former team, the Columbus Blue Jackets, honoring him before their first preseason game of the 2024-25 season.

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