{"id":936914,"date":"2026-10-22T12:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/936914\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T12:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:56:09","slug":"dan-muse-pittsburgh-penguins-f-ben-kindel-doing-better-after-medical-episode-on-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/936914\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Muse: Pittsburgh Penguins F Ben Kindel \u2018doing better\u2019 after medical episode on flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> head coach Dan Muse shared a positive update on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/ben-kindel\/8485414\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/ben-kindel\/8485414\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Kindel<\/a> Wednesday after the 19-year-old forward had a medical episode that forced the team\u2019s plane to return to Salt Lake City earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The incident occurred following the Penguins\u2019 5-4 loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/utah-mammoth\/68\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/utah-mammoth\/68\" target=\"_blank\">Utah Mammoth<\/a> on Monday. Kindel was taken by ambulance to University of Utah Hospital for further evaluation, but was \u201cconscious, alert and an in stable condition,\u201d according to the Penguins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe\u2019s doing better,\u201d Muse told 105.9 the X in Pittsburgh on Wednesday. \u201cWe\u2019re hopeful that he\u2019ll be traveling back to Pittsburgh today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Muse did not share any further details about the episode, but stating that \u201cObviously, it was a scary moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kindel is in his second NHL season, having posted 17 goals and 35 points in 77 games as a rookie last season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Taken with the 11th overall selection of the 2025 NHL Entry Draft, the Coquitlam, BC native has two goals and two assists in nine games this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Penguins are scheduled to host the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/florida-panthers\/13\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/florida-panthers\/13\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Panthers<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins head coach Dan Muse shared a positive update on Ben Kindel Wednesday after the 19-year-old forward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[16159,64,63,503684,575,131728,85],"class_list":["post-936914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ben-kindel-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8485414","tag-nhl","tag-pittsburgh-penguins-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-5","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}