NHL star Johnny Gaudreau's wife welcomed a baby boy last week, more than seven months after Gaudreau was killed in a bicycle crash.
"I had our third baby! ... Another baby boy," Meredith Gaudreau wrote Monday on Instagram. She announced she was pregnant at her husband's funeral in September.
The baby, who was born Tuesday, is named Carter Michael Gaudreau, sharing his father's same middle name.
"He looks exactly like his daddy, too," she wrote. "I love you so much my baby! We are going to have so much fun. I can’t wait to give you the best life, my special boy forever."
Johnny Gaudreau and his brother, Matthew, were fatally struck while they were bicycling at about 8:19 p.m. on Aug. 29 in Oldmans Township, New Jersey, about 30 miles outside Philadelphia. Gaudreau played for the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Calgary Flames.
The brothers were in town to be groomsmen in their sister’s wedding, which was later postponed to July 11 in Philadelphia.
Sean Higgins was arrested in connection with the crash. He was suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol and was charged with two counts of death by auto.
In a court filing in February, attorneys for Higgins argued that he was being unfairly prosecuted and alleged that Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau were more impaired than he was at the time of the crash.