Hockey Mourns the Gaudreau Brothers, Jarvis Signs, and Other Blackhawks Bullets

Tab Bamford Tab Bamford
Aug 31, 2024
Aug 31, 2024
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There was no news in the hockey world on Friday. There were no transactions to report. There were no legitimate rumors to share. There was only mourning Johnny Gaudreau’s tragic death on Thursday night.

  • There are so many absolutely crushing aspects of this story. One of them is the reality that Matthew Gaudreau’s wife is pregnant. A , which has been verified and shared by a significant portion of the hockey community over the past few hours, has been set up to help with his funeral expenses and his family’s future.

  • It was a hard day on hockey social media yesterday. If you search or his nickname, “,” on Twitter/X, be prepared to shed a few tears. I will, however, also invite you to search for , his brother who was also killed by the **** who decided to get behind the wheel of an automobile after drinking. Both Gaudreau boys love hockey. They also loved life, and their families. And invested in those around them and the game of hockey.

  • I’m only going to share a few here, because there were literally thousands. My mind just keeps coming back to their family. God bless them.

  • I really, really hate going there at times like this, but there’s a reality in the wake of this heart breaking, gut wrenching news. Columbus just lost one of their best players — and his $9.7M cap hit (for the next four years) — just a couple short weeks before training camp begins. had the Blue Jackets just over $72M in committed cap space for the coming season. For the coming season, the NHL’s lower limit is set at $65.0M, which means they might need to add around $3M in salary to get to the floor (depending on the cap situation now). They also just traded Patrik Laine to Montreal. A summer that saw the organization name a new general manager and head coach just got that much more problematic because a jackass got behind the wheel drunk and took away a family’s father, husband, brother and son (and his brother as well).

  • The Carolina Hurricanes announced they have signed Seth Jarvis to a big-time extension. Frank Seravalli is reporting the deal has some deferred money in the signing bonus that will lower his cap hit… and, somehow, isn’t cap circumvention. I’ll have more on that later but here’s the news on the contract.

  • Finally, yes. This. All of this. Give me one of the greatest coaches of all time breaking down college all-star game tape of the greatest player to ever do it. Fabulous.

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    Tab Bamford has been writing about the Chicago Blackhawks for almost two decades. He joined Bleacher Nation as the lead Blackhawks writer in May 2022. Tab is a member of the and is the author of three books about the Blackhawks: (Triumph Books),"100 Things Blackhawks Fans Should Know & Do Before They🌊 Die" (Triumph Books) and "Chicago Blackhawks: An Illustrated Timeline" (Reedy Press, 2021). Findꦫ hi♊m on Twitter/X/Instagram/Threads at @The1Tab

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