Family and friends, together with members of the Columbus Blue Jackets and NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, gathered Monday to pay their respects to NHL star Johnny Gaudreau, who was killed in a biking accident final month.

Throughout a heartfelt eulogy for her husband, Gaudreau’s spouse, Meredith Gaudreau, revealed she is pregnant with the couple’s third baby. 

“We’re really a household of 5,” Meredith Gaudreau stated throughout her eulogy. “I am in my ninth week of being pregnant with our third child. A complete shock, however once more, John was beaming and so excited.

“I used to be so nervous as a result of this was, once more, a complete shock. However his response was simply instantly kissing me and hugging me though I used to be driving the automobile. After the preliminary pleasure sank in, each time he checked out me, he would say, ‘You are nuts, that? Three children?'”

Meredith Gaudreau additionally took the chance to replicate on her relationship with the Blue Jackets star throughout her 40-minute eulogy. The couple beforehand had Noa Harper Gaudreau, who was born on Sept. 30, 2022, together with Johnny Edward Gaudreau (born on Feb. 22, 2024). 

“John and I had the very best six months as a household of 4. These will ceaselessly be the very best six months of my life,” Meredith Gaudreau added. “There’s particularly one week that I’ll cherish ceaselessly — it is going to be my favourite week of my life out of these six months.”

Gaudreau, 31, alongside along with his brother, Matthew Gaudreau, have been using bicycles in OIdmans Township, New Jersey once they have been struck and killed by a drunk driver, in keeping with police. The driving force was arrested and charged with two counts of dying by auto.

Matthew Gaudreau’s spouse, Madeline Gaudreau, was additionally pregnant with their first baby on the time of his dying. The Gaudreau brothers have been on the town to be groomsmen of their sister’s wedding ceremony on the time of their deaths.