RIP Johnny Gaudreau

[OddyOh]

Unbelievable. What if they’d left just a minute earlier or later, it’s crazy how these needless tragedies occur.
I hope their family can find peace eventually.

 

[BertCorbeau]

Still in shock, what a tragedy

 

[HolyCrap]

Still in shock, what a tragedy

Same. I just read about this as I checked this site. Tragedies like this really makes you realize how fragile life is.

 

[PROUD PAPA]

Enjoy every moment of life because you just never know.
R.I.P Johnny.

 

[WillNy29]

Ive got a pit in my stomach. Absolutely heart wrenching stuff.

Prayers for the Gaudreaus <3

 

[Burnie97]

From the Calgary forum board.

Absolutely gut wrenching.

I can't even imagine and I hope I never need to.

With kids myself I just don't know if I could actually function anymore.

I'd easily trade places.

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

Reading all the stories about him and seeing just how kind-hearted and genuine he was makes this all the worse. Gaudreau was a stand up guy through and through. That he was taken from his family and the game because of some stupid asshole is horrific. A goddamn shame. He's gone far too soon. May he and his brother rest in peace.

 

[Punch Drunk Loov]

Still reeling over this. I worry about my friends and family who bike places. When I used to bike within the city over a decade ago it never felt particularly safe on the road. I've stopped drinking for a number of reasons and am starting to really not like alcohol as a substance. Terrible to see a family tragedy like this. Gutted for the Gaudreau family. This never should have happened

 

[HEAVY DUTY]

Saw the rumours last night. Didn't want to believe.

Just terrible. RIP.

 

[leafsfan5]

Tough to find words for this, just so unbelievably heartbreaking and unfair

 

[LeafsStorm]

I'm having a really hard time with this. I f***ing detest drunk drivers with a passion. When I was younger, I had many nights where I thought - sure I could drive, but always decided not to. I usually walked or asked for a ride. I was always welcome to leave my car wherever I was. I just cannot grasp the sheer stupidity and selfishness it takes to decide it's okay to drive drunk. This isn't a new thing, it's constantly out there not to do it.. yet people continue to decide they are above others and common effing sense to do so .Do we really need to install fking breath starts on vehicles because idiots like this continue to kill innocent fking people? I'm so angry. All day I can't stop thinking about how it must feel for the family. There was no reason this needed to happen. Just fking pointless

 

[Al14]

R.I.P. Johnny Hockey. May your younger brother, Matthew, R.I.P. too.

Such an unfathomable tragedy !!! Such a huge shock for the Gaudreau family !!!

My heartfelt condolences to his family, his friends, and all of his hockey teammates, past and present. Same goes for Matthew.

Drinking and driving should warrant the death penalty, especially when you kill someone !!!

 

[rumman]

So sad, enjoy the day, tomorrow’s promised to no one…….

 

[93LEAFS]

An absolute tragedy and will be felt heavily around the league. Johnny was one of the most popular and well-connected American player in the league among players. That New England fraternity of NHLers is very close (I know he's from NJ, but he was a 3 year BC guy), and he was part of that family.

Can't imagine his family right now.

 

[Menzinger]

Absolutely horrific and heartbreaking

 

[93LEAFS]

I just saw Treliving donated $1313 to the GoFundMe for Gaudreau's brother. Obviously, that amount was chosen due to Gaudreau's number.

 

[KPower]

Absolutely gutted for his family. So unfair.

 

[Stephen]

Still in shock, what a tragedy

The details of the tragedy are hard to take in. Truly devastating.

 

[Squiffy]

The details of the tragedy are hard to take in. Truly devastating.

You couldn’t make it up. It’s like 10,000 random coincidences all going f***ing wrong at once.

 

[Gabriel426]

From the Calgary forum board.

Absolutely gut wrenching.



I can't even imagine and I hope I never need to.

With kids myself I just don't know if I could actually function anymore.

I'd easily trade places.

You and I both.

 

[ruaware41]

I'm having a really hard time with this. I f***ing detest drunk drivers with a passion. When I was younger, I had many nights where I thought - sure I could drive, but always decided not to. I usually walked or asked for a ride. I was always welcome to leave my car wherever I was. I just cannot grasp the sheer stupidity and selfishness it takes to decide it's okay to drive drunk. This isn't a new thing, it's constantly out there not to do it.. yet people continue to decide they are above others and common effing sense to do so .Do we really need to install fking breath starts on vehicles because idiots like this continue to kill innocent fking people? I'm so angry. All day I can't stop thinking about how it must feel for the family. There was no reason this needed to happen. Just fking pointless

The law itself confesses the impracticality of not having anything to drink in an alcoholic society while driving by having a legal BAC limit of 0.08 and so it instead decides that the most practical solution to keep everyone happy and not to disturb the monopolizers of any one industry (auto and alcohol) is to have people who have started drinking make an assessment on if they are sober enough (because drunk people are so amazing at that) to drive. It’s hypocrisy to the left, it’s hypocrisy to the right, it’s hypocrisy to the north and it’s hypocrisy to the south.

 

[QJo]

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He probably saw the SUV as trying to stop him from passing and decided he'd show them by just overtaking on the right. A decision that almost surely was caused by a drunken state that couldn't assess the situation properly or quickly enough. While I can't imagine the awful feeling when he realized what the SUV was doing and what he had done I have little sympathy for drunk drivers.

 

[horner]

2 lane highways are stupid dangerous.

I don’t like driving a car on them, and I definitely don’t ride a bike on them, where possible.

Sunset at that time would have been 730 pm.
I cycled decades ago even during the day I didn't like riding on highways or county roads.

 

[Captain Crunch]

Holy shit. What horrible news. It sounds like he and his brother were hit while cycling. Unreal.

And supposedly it was a drunk driver who hit them!

 

[Captain Crunch]

He probably saw the SUV as trying to stop him from passing and decided he'd show them by just overtaking on the right. A decision that almost surely was caused by a drunken state that couldn't assess the situation properly or quickly enough. While I can't imagine the awful feeling when he realized what the SUV was doing and what he had done I have little sympathy for drunk drivers.

I agree 100%! To me, it's no different than someone shooting and killing people. Whatever sentence they would get, drunken drivers should get the same! I had a nephew who was killed by a drunk driver, and he only got a 6 month jail sentence (granted, this was back in the late 70s, but even so, just a 6 month jail sentence for killing someone!).
There needs to be stiffer/more serious consequences for people who are caught driving impaired, rather than not until they kill someone! To me, that might help deter some people from continuing to drive while impaired.