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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
I've been hesitant to share this, as I don't want people to mis-interpret this, but I can;t get it out of my head.
I often think about how the existence of my daughter is the result of hundreds of thousands (perhaps millions) of little decisions, that if any of them are different, means she isn't in my life. Maybe I have a kid still. A different kid. But not her. Life's miracles are the culmination of these moments. But today is a reminder that so are life's tragedies.
There is an alternative timeline where Johnny re-signs with the Flames, breaks all the records, and becomes the greatest Flame. And he and Sean grow into the aging vets on the team, mentoring the next generation.
Ultimately the decision that cost Johnny and Matty their lives was made by the murderer who got behind the wheel drunk. But I just can't get it out of my head that it wasn't supposed to be like this. None of it.
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I go through thoughts like this too, but there's so many crazy alternate situations possible.
In an alternate universe, that driver doesn't come across and kill the Gaudreau's today but continues being a POS drunk driver and kills someone else in the near future instead, maybe a child.
Would still be tragic but to a different family and most(all) of us would never even hear about it.
Life is full of these strange and sometimes terrible circumstances. Unfortunately today it took the life of someone we all knew and cared about.