{"id":311054,"date":"2026-10-21T04:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T04:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/311054\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T04:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T04:36:19","slug":"pittsburgh-penguins-player-hospitalized-in-slc-after-in-air-medical-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/311054\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins player hospitalized in SLC after in-air medical emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 The Pittsburgh Penguins team plane returned to Salt Lake City on Tuesday after a player suffered a medical emergency mid-flight.<\/p>\n<p>The plane returned to Salt Lake City International Airport shortly after takeoff, and forward Ben Kindel was taken by ambulance to University of Utah Hospital for evaluation. <\/p>\n<p>According to the team, the 19-year-old Kindel is &#8220;conscious, alert and in stable condition,&#8221; but did not share further details on what occurred on the plane. Penguins officials added that team physician Dr. Dharmesh Vyas was on the flight and immediately attended to Kindel.<\/p>\n<p>Kindel played nearly 19 minutes in Monday&#8217;s game, in which the Utah Mammoth won 5-4.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The health and safety of our players, as well as the privacy for their families, are our top priority,&#8221; the Penguins said in a statement. &#8220;The team will provide further updates when appropriate.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 The Pittsburgh Penguins team plane returned to Salt Lake City on Tuesday after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-311054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}