The grief over the deaths of Columbus Blue Jackets forward Johnny Gaudreau and his brother Matthew continues following the tragic accident that took their lives Thursday night – an incident that should never have happened.

The Gaudreau family released a statement about the brothers on Friday, but it was Johnny's wife Meredith who sent her late husband two Instagram messages, one about the star striker as a husband and the other about what he was like as a father.

We would like to express our deepest condolences to the entire Gaudreau family following this tragedy.

Here are the Instagram posts: