NHL Team Captain Gabriel Landeskog Welcomes Baby Boy Luke As His Second Children

Posted by Abbie Anker on Sunday, May 19, 2024

Gabriel Landeskog recently had a baby boy named Luke, who is a few years younger than his daughter Linnea Rae. With the new arrival, Gabriel and his wife, Melissa Shouldice, feels the family become lively.

The Swedish professional NHL player has been married to his beautiful wife Melissa for four years. This fantastic, loving couple has been bringing up two little sweethearts, their daughter and son, Linnea and Luke, respectively.

The November-born player, Gabriel, is a Swedish professional ice hockey left winger and captain of the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Gabriel never wanted to be seen as the typical skilled European player, so he set out to be the opposite. His father, Tony, a former Swedish Elite League defenseman, encouraged his son, captain Gabriel, to play a physical game as a teenager.

In the meantime, his father, Tony Landeskog, currently works in the insurance business, and his mother, Cecelia, is a chef and cooking instructor.

After being selected by The Colorado Avalanche in the NHL Draft in 2011, Landeskog became the third Sweden-born player to win the Calder Trophy as the NHL’s top rookie from 2011 to 2012. He also became the second NHL rookie to score 20 goals and record 200 hits a season.

Following this information, in September 2012, the Colorado Avalanche announced Landeskog as the team captain, making him the youngest in NHL history.

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Gabriel Has Two Children With His Wife, Melissa

The famous athlete Gabriel and his wife Melissa are blessed with two children, a girl and a baby boy. Melissa Shouldice is popularly known as the wife of the Swedish ice hockey captain Gabriel Landeskog who plays for the Colorado Avalanche.

Melissa has a few things to share, but being a graduate of Psychology degree from the University of Guelph is counted as a major one. She tends to stay out of the limelight, as she has even set her Instagram account to private.

Similarly, she is known as a wardrobe stylist who has put together designs for various famous people and film shootings. We can still see many loving pictures of the couple with their two lovely children via Gabriel’s social media accounts.

From there, we can admire how both of them have supported their relationship and firmly continued to build a stronger bond.

Daddy’s Little Girl Linnea Rae Turned 3 This Year

Daddy’s little princess, Linnea Rae, Gabriel Landeskog’s daughter, turned 3 this year just two weeks ago in November.

As a husband and expectant father, Gabe Landeskog was in the right place at the right time on November 1st.

In the meantime, he was on an injured reserve. That’s when Linnea Rae Landeskog was born. She was 6 pounds and 5 ounces, nearly a month before her due date.

In a walking boot on his right leg, proud father Gabe, the Avalanche’s 27-year-old left wing and team captain, then witnessed the birth and had spent more time than he thought he would have by his lovely wife’s side ever since.

It was a bittersweet moment for everyone, as seeing Gabe injured wasn’t something anyone would wish for. But thankfully and coincidentally, he was there to witness one of the most heartwarming moments of his life.

The early birth of his daughter and his presence with them at such a moment also gives us a message of how family comes before anything else, even for a player. 

Nevertheless, we can see many heartwarming and cute pictures and videos of Gabriel with his little daughter.

Daughter Linnea can also be spotted cheering up her dad during his games on the field. On June 2022, a video of Gabriel with his little daughter Linnae went viral.

The post about Gabriel Landeskog’s 2-year-old daughter drinking out of the Stanley Cup was the best thing you could have seen all day.

In the clip that has since captured the internet’s attention, the Avalanche captain Landeskog held the iconic trophy and his toddler, Linnea Rae, drank from the cup, a longstanding tradition among Stanley Cup champions.

The sweet father-daughter moment came days after Colorado defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 6 of this year’s Stanley Cup Final.

Gabriel and Melissa’s Married Life

Melissa and Gabriel have been seen together since the year 2012. It wasn’t even a year since the couple decided to tie the knot when they started going out in the same year.

Though their relationship is mainly noted to have been long-distance, Melissa frequently managed to travel to her then-boyfriend, Gabriel, where she would watch and cheer in his games. That’s how they were able to meet each other at times. 

Despite the distant relationship and the age gap of a year and a few months between the couple, they married on 7th July 2018. The ceremony occurred at a resort in Pelican Hill Newport Beach, California. 

Melissa and Gabriel are now the parents of two wonderful kids. They welcomed their baby girl, Linnea in November 2019 and their son on 5th March 2021 last year. As of 2022, the couple has been together for almost a decade and has been growing and glowing.

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