The Gaudreau family, through the Gaudreau Family Foundation, launches a free youth hockey initiative to honor Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau, who were killed in a crash in 2023. The program is designed to help children learn basic skating and start playing ice hockey.
Multiple outlets report that the foundation’s “Learn-to-Skate/Learn-to-Play Ice Hockey Program” offers instruction for young participants, aiming to make the sport accessible at no cost. The camp is held for local children, with one report specifying an age range of 3 to 12. It takes place at the same rink where the Gaudreau brothers began playing hockey, tying the event to their early experience with the sport.
While the coverage emphasizes different details—some focusing on the foundation’s memorial purpose and others on the program format and location—both describe a free learn-to-skate-and-play program for children and note that it is conducted at the rink closely associated with the brothers’ hockey beginnings.
