A tight-knit hockey family planned to celebrate with loved ones this weekend. Instead, they’re planning two funerals
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Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau, who were killed Thursday night by a suspected drunken driver, were mourned by the sports world over the weekend.
The night before their youngest sister’s wedding, two brothers and soon-to-be groomsmen from a tight-knit hockey family rode their bikes down a county road not far from their southern New Jersey hometown. Instead of celebrating this weekend, their family now has two funerals to plan as the sports world mourns. The sun had set over Oldsmans Township Thursday evening as Johnny Gaudreau, 31, and Matthew Gaudreau, 29, cycled near the fog line along County Route 551. There were good things on the horizon for Johnny and Matthew, two talented hockey players who tore up the ice for a season together at Boston College before Johnny, widely known as “Johnny Hockey,” would be drafted by the NHL’s Calgary Flames in 2011 straight out of college to launch a stellar professional career. Their family was expanding. They were ready to welcome another brother into the fold Friday as their sister, Katie Gaudreau, prepared to wed the love of her life in Gloucester City, New Jersey, near Philadelphia. Matthew Gaudreau’s wife, Madeline Gaudreau, is expecting the couple’s first child, according to an online baby registry for the couple. In a photo posted to a GoFundMe campaign verified by CNN, the former high school hockey coach and future dad proudly held up an ultrasound strip showing his unborn baby boy, Tripp, who is due to be born in December.
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