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The New Jersey driver accused of drunkenly fatally mowing down NHL star Johnny Gaudreau and his brother Matthew is desperately trying anything to improve his case before heading to trial.

Lawyers for the alleged boozed-up killer motorist, Sean Higgins, asked at a court hearing Monday for seven more weeks to complete further blood lab testing and to compile additional information from an accident-reconstruction expert.

5 Johnny Gaudreau warms up with his Columbus Blue Jackets team in January 2024. Getty Images

5 Matthew Gaudreau smiles as he holds up a strip of ultrasound images of his yet-unborn son. Gofundme

Defense lawyer Richard Klineburger informed the court that there was  additional information that was provided to the accident-reconstruction expert  needed to finish his report and that more testing must be done on Higgins' blood work after the tragic August 2024 horror.

Both efforts are an attempt to make sure the state's blood work was accurate - after some controversy - and that prosecutors considered all factors in the accident, the defense said.

Salem County Judge Michael Silvanio told both sides to return Sept. 11 for an afternoon hearing, once all of the new information has been shared between the state and Higgins' team.

5 Sean Higgins (right) and one of his lawyers, Matthew Portella, appear in court in 2024. AP

During that hearing, Higgins will have to decide whether to face a jury or try to land a deal with prosecutors, according to his co-counsel, Matthew Portella.

Higgins' lawyers have spent much of this year trying to get the case tossed, arguing prosecutors' claims that the 45-year-old Army veteran's blood-alcohol content was .087 the night of the wreck are inaccurate because their test used an incomplete blood sample, or just Higgins' plasma - and that his BAC was actually below the legal limit of .08.

But that hail Mary was shot down by Judge Silvanio in May.

5 It's been nearly two years since the Gaudreau brothers were fatally struck along a rural stretch of road in New Jersey. Brigitte Stelzer for NY Post

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