Hockey Corridor of Famer Lanny McDonald suffered a cardiac occasion Sunday after coming back from the NHL’s all-star recreation in Toronto.
The 70-year-old wrote in an Instagram put up Monday on the Calgary Flames alumni account that two nurses heading to their very own flights at Calgary Worldwide Airport helped him when he was in misery.
“It’s true that even powerful outdated guys need assistance generally,” McDonald stated within the put up.
Within the stress of the second, McDonald’s spouse Ardell didn’t get the nurses’ names.
“We’re eternally grateful for his or her care and motion . . . I owe them my life,” McDonald stated.
Former NHL nice Lanny McDonald attends a ceremony the place it was introduced that he’s to be inducted into Canada’s Sports activities Corridor of Fame, in Toronto on Wednesday, April 19, 2017.
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He stated he was in hospital Monday receiving care from medical doctors and nurses and looking out ahead to Sunday’s Tremendous Bowl between the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers.
“Whereas I hang around right here because the professionals work out subsequent steps for the ol’ ticker, I’ll attempt to persuade the workforce right here to guess on the Chiefs subsequent Sunday and by no means cease cheering for our Flames.”
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McDonald of Hanna, Alta., had 500 objectives and 506 assists in 1,111 video games over 17 NHL seasons for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Colorado Rockies and Flames.
The ahead was co-captain of the Flames and the squad’s emotional chief when Calgary gained the Stanley Cup in 1989.
McDonald was inducted into the Hockey Corridor of Fame in 1992. He was named to the Order of Canada in 2022.
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