{"id":940626,"date":"2026-10-20T23:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T23:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940626\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T23:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T23:48:09","slug":"kindel-conscious-stable-after-medical-episode-on-penguins-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940626\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindel conscious, stable after medical episode on Penguins plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins said that their team plane had to return to Salt Lake City on Tuesday due to a medical episode involving forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/benjamin-kindel-8485414\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Kindel<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins said the plane returned to Salt Lake City International Aiport shortly after takeoff.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Penguins said that team physician, Dr. Dharmest Vyas, of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, as well as the team&#8217;s medical staff were on board and immediately attended to Kindel, 19, who is in his second season with the Penguins.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An ambulance was waiting upon arrival, and he was taken to the University of Utah Hospital for further evaluation. Ben is conscious, alert and in stable condition,&#8221; the team said in a statement. &#8220;The health and safety of our players, as well as the privacy for their families, are our top priority. The team will provide further updates when appropriate.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins, who played the Utah Mammoth in Salt Lake City on Monday, are scheduled to next play on Thursday against the Florida Panthers at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins said that their team plane had to return to Salt Lake City on Tuesday due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-940626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}