So this is about Johnny Gaudreau, a magical little player who hockey first knew about, in lights, when he was a star at Boston College playing so much bigger than he really was. And the only way to describe what he could do with a puck on his stick is to use as much of a BC reference as there is in this world: On the ice Gaudreau was another athlete who was supposed to be too small to be as great as he was. That athlete, of course, is Doug Flutie. Johnny Gaudreau even had one of the best nicknames you will ever hear, a nickname as cool as he always was on the ice:
He was Johnny Hockey.
Only now he is gone at the age of 31 because he and his brother Matthew, once his teammate at BC, were mowed down by an alleged drunk driver on County Road 551 in south Jersey about 8:30 on Thursday night, the night before Johnny and Matthew were supposed to be groomsmen at their sister Katie’s wedding. There is only lousy timing, terrible timing, when a tragedy like this literally runs over a whole family the way this one did Thursday night. But the timing of this, before their sister’s wedding, even made this particular tragedy more gutting, and more unimaginable.
He was Johnny Hockey.
Only now he is gone at the age of 31 because he and his brother Matthew, once his teammate at BC, were mowed down by an alleged drunk driver on County Road 551 in south Jersey about 8:30 on Thursday night, the night before Johnny and Matthew were supposed to be groomsmen at their sister Katie’s wedding. There is only lousy timing, terrible timing, when a tragedy like this literally runs over a whole family the way this one did Thursday night. But the timing of this, before their sister’s wedding, even made this particular tragedy more gutting, and more unimaginable.
