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00:00Joining me now is Matt Coz, TSN 1050 host and co-host of the Macco and Coz podcast.

00:06Matt, thanks very much for joining us.

00:08Not the conversation we want to have right now, stunning news.

00:11Yeah, it really is, and the information started to trickle at around 5.20, 5.30 this morning.

00:19Around seven o'clock or so, it was confirmed, and now we're finding out more of the details

00:24about the drunk driver who's been charged with a couple counts of impaired driving and

00:29death by automobile.

00:31And this is such a gut punch throughout the entire NHL, because this is a 31-year-old

00:37who's still an entire career ahead of him in the NHL, and him and his brother, they

00:42played together at Boston College when Johnny won the top collegiate hockey player award.

00:48And to go from being a fourth-round draft pick to a guy making the All-Star team seven

00:55times also screams about the work ethic that Johnny Goudreau possessed.

01:00I mean, just devastating, unexpected news in every aspect.

01:05I mean, he was not a big man by any stretch, but boy, oh boy, he could play.

01:11Yeah, and that's one of the things.

01:12That's why he got the nickname Johnny Hockey.

01:14It's one of the reasons people liked him.

01:17You always expect the six-foot-two, 200-plus-pound giant of a man to do well in the NHL.

01:25But what I think always connects with hockey fans is the guy who's a little bit smaller

01:29in stature, the guy who's not drafted in the first round, the player who isn't guaranteed

01:34success.

01:35When you see those stories succeed on the ice, it's easy to root for him.

01:40And certainly there was a connection, as you mentioned, here in Canada.

01:43His best years were in Calgary.

01:46They were part of some really exciting teams.

01:49So to see that story snuffed out in such a, just, again, I'm trying to use other words

01:56than tragic.

01:57In some ways, it feels like this wasn't supposed to be how it ended.

02:01He was supposed to be in everyone's hockey lives longer, and a young father and a husband.

02:06I mean, it's just such a sad story.

02:09And that's, you know, we can talk about his accomplishments on the ice, but also, married

02:13two young kids and out riding with his brother, and that's going to get lost unfortunately

02:18in this, is that his brother was also killed by this apparent drunk driver.

02:21Yes.

02:22Yeah, his brother also, a brief career in the NHL, his brother also now coaching hockey

02:28as well.

02:29So also looking to have an impact on a next generation, a younger generation of skaters.

02:34Yes.

02:35And the brother, Matthew, 29 years old.

02:37You know, it's just in every way possible.

02:40This is a story I think it's hard for people to fully comprehend, because, you know, everyone

02:45has an idea of celebrities or of other people in their lives about how their careers are

02:51going to go and how they're going to be in our lives.

02:54This is not the way anyone expected the final chapter to be in such a senseless, horrible

02:59act.

03:00No, and I mean, he was on pace probably to become, I would say, at least top 10 American

03:05players of all time.

03:06Yeah.

03:07Yeah.

03:08He was going up there.

03:09If not top five.

03:10Yeah.

03:12the Austin Matthews of the world.

03:15And yes, that's where Johnny Goudreau was certainly heading.

03:17And at 31, he still had many more years left in him.

03:21And, you know, I mean, this is a guy we've seen the potential three times scoring 30

03:25goals or more, seven times making an all-star team.

03:28Yes, the hockey version of Johnny Goudreau had still many chapters left to be written.

03:35Sad, sad day today.

03:36All right, Matt, thank you for sharing your thoughts with us.

03:38We appreciate it.

03:39Absolutely.

NHL player Johnny Gaudreau dead at 31 ｜ Former Calgary Flames player dies || Latest Update

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