Johnny Gaudreau's sister talks Team USA honoring her late brother after winning Olympic gold

Team USA men’s hockey honored the precocious Johnny Gaudreau connected Sunday arsenic players carried his jersey and his children onto the crystal arsenic they celebrated a golden medal triumph astatine the Olympics.

Gaudreau and his brother, Matthew, were killed by an alleged drunk operator successful New Jersey successful August 2024. They were successful municipality for their sister’s wedding. The erstwhile Columbus Blue Jackets subordinate apt would person been connected the squad if it wasn’t for the tragedy.

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United States' Dylan Larkin (21) holds Johnny, the lad of the precocious subordinate Johnny Gaudreau portion posing with teammates aft a men's crystal hockey golden medal crippled betwixt Canada and the United States astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Milan, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026.  (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

United States' Matthew Tkachuk (19) carries Noa Gaudreau, pursuing a men's crystal hockey golden medal crippled betwixt Canada and the United States astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Milan, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026.  (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Katie Gaudreau appeared connected Fox News Channel’s "Fox & Friends" and thanked the squad for what they did.

"Team USA truly went supra and beyond. It meant the world," she said Monday. "Even conscionable having his jersey retired erstwhile Matthew (Tkachuk) went retired with his jersey round-to-round with the jersey. It truly meant a lot. And we thought it was conscionable going to extremity there.

"And past I retrieve watching the jersey erstwhile they were giving retired the golden medals and thinking, ‘Wow, it’s inactive there,’ and arsenic the solemnisation went on, erstwhile they went to bash the picture, they stopped for a small bit. We were like, ‘What are they doing? What are they doing?’ And I thought I heard them accidental earlier, ‘There’s Meredith successful the crowd,’ and erstwhile they went and got Johnny (Junior) connected his 2nd day and Noa, it genuinely meant the satellite to america because, honestly, this is what John wanted for his children. He wanted them to acquisition these experiences, these once-in-a-lifetime opportunities that helium worked truthful hard for."

TEAM USA MEN'S HOCKEY HONORS JOHNNY GAUDREAU AFTER WINNING OLYMPIC GOLD

Team USA airs for radical photograph Johnny Gaudreau's children during the Men's Gold Medal lucifer betwixt Canada and United States connected time sixteen of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic games astatine Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena connected Feb. 22, 2026 successful Milan, Italy. (RvS.Media/Monika Majer/Getty Images)

Team USA won the game, 2-1, acknowledgment to Jack Hughes’ people successful overtime. Canada missed retired connected a fistful of chances to bust the crippled open.

Katie Gaudreau said she thought determination whitethorn person been immoderate benignant of divine involution for Canada to person missed immoderate of the opportunities they had.

"They would beryllium precise proud. They similar a nail-biter, truthful they astir apt would’ve been chirping everyone. But they would’ve been proud," she said. "I deliberation determination were a mates goals that … they mightiness person had a small assistance successful saving. They didn’t spell in. There was a mates times I was watching, ‘How did that not spell in?’ I deliberation they mightiness person had immoderate assistance down the net. They were ne'er rather antiaircraft truthful I don’t cognize if they woulda made their mode backmost successful the antiaircraft portion to halt that puck."

She added that the grief of losing her brothers was inactive there, but acknowledgment to the hockey community, she and her household person been capable to instrumentality it time by day.

"There’s nary processing. We’re inactive taking it time by day," she said. "But due to the fact that of the assistance of the hockey assemblage and truly North America arsenic a whole, we’ve been capable to spell 1 measurement mundane further and I’m truthful thankful for the community’s help. No parent, wife, sister, children should ever person to acquisition this tragedy.

Auston Matthews (34) of the United States, Zach Werenski (8) of the United States and Matthew Tkachuk (19) of the United States clasp up the jersey of John Gaudreau aft defeating Canada successful the men's crystal hockey golden medal crippled during the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games astatine Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena connected Feb. 22, 2026. (Amber Searls/Imagn Images)

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"The information that we’re inactive present and taking it measurement by measurement to grant the boys and their bequest is truly successful acknowledgment to the assemblage and things similar Team USA and what they did yesterday. Just the outpour of emotion and enactment for John’s kids, Matthew’s trip, it’s genuinely unthinkable what this assemblage tin truly do."

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