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# Weekend FTB: A not so fun end to the summer
- URL: https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/ftb-of-all-the-souls-i-have-encountered-in-my-travels/
- Published: 2024-08-31T10:00:20.000Z
- Updated: 2024-09-01T03:49:33.000Z
- Description: This is not the Labour Day weekend hockey fans expected to have.
- Author: Species
- Tags: From The Branches

This is not the Labour Day weekend hockey fans expected to have.

This FTB will be short. It probably would have been short anyway, as this was supposed to be that weekend where there was no news. All the media personalities would be off for one of their last off-season trips to Muskoka, the NHL team executives and players would be getting in that one last luxury resort vacation on some tiny island in the Caribbean, and all of them would be unplugged from our particular niche of the internet entertainment business, all of which we're a part of here whether a writer or a member and commentor.

Then something happened, and it reminded us this isn't only a "business" to us where we simply process information and data and statistics and press releases and provide you our commentary on them for you to discuss.

There's real people out there that matter to us.

> Our heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau, whose lives ended way too soon. Words cannot appropriately express the sorrow the hockey community is feeling today. [pic.twitter.com/RvT1gPvbZd](https://t.co/RvT1gPvbZd?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)
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> — USA Hockey (@usahockey) [August 30, 2024](https://twitter.com/usahockey/status/1829490590729568693?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

> The memorial for Johnny Gaudreau at the Saddledome has grown a lot since last night.  
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> Lots of people here this Saturday morning.   
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> Dozens of messages in chalk.   
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> More candy, Gatorade, and notes. [pic.twitter.com/FXQhHiJ2fn](https://t.co/FXQhHiJ2fn?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)
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> — Salim Nadim Valji (@salimvalji) [August 31, 2024](https://twitter.com/salimvalji/status/1829909457540960631?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

[Gaudreau remembered from all corners of sports world on social media | NHL.comJames of NBA, Trout of MLB, NHL teams, players among those mourning Blue Jackets forward, brother![](https://www.nhl.com/assets/icons/fav/nhl/favicon-apple-touch-icon.png)NHL logoDan Rosen![](https://media.d3.nhle.com/image/private/t_ratio16_9-size50/prd/bhq32jnvoxfjezajn3j1.png)](https://www.nhl.com/news/johnny-gaudreau-remembered-by-sports-community-on-social-media?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

I certainly never expected to be sharing a Tkachuk post from Instagram, but its simplicity is what makes it the most poignant one.

> [ View this post on Instagram ](https://www.instagram.com/p/C%5FTimQfpwmY/?utm%5Fsource=ig%5Fembed&utm%5Fcampaign=loading)
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> [A post shared by Matthew Tkachuk (@matthew\_tkachuk)](https://www.instagram.com/p/C%5FTimQfpwmY/?utm%5Fsource=ig%5Fembed&utm%5Fcampaign=loading)

I hope you all can enjoy this long weekend, regardless of what has happened.   
  
This is supposed to be a happy time, and so we should keep it as such and enjoy it, so please feel free to share all your happy long weekend experiences of what you are doing to enjoy this one last moment of summer fun below in the comments before September begins.