{"id":311481,"date":"2026-10-22T02:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T02:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/311481\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T02:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T02:24:17","slug":"muse-says-kindel-doing-better-could-travel-home-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/311481\/","title":{"rendered":"Muse Says Kindel &#8216;Doing Better,&#8217; Could Travel Home Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pittsburgh Penguins winger <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/ben-kindel\/\" class=\"pb-player-link\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Kindel<\/a> is improving and could travel back to Pittsburgh as soon as Wednesday, coach Dan Muse said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kindel, 19, had <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/pittsburgh-penguins-ben-kindel-medical-emergency\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a medical episode<\/a> shortly after the team charter plane took off from Salt Lake City on Tuesday. The plane turned around and returned to Salt Lake City, and Kindel was taken by a waiting ambulance to a hospital for evaluation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pb-lineups-autolink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/pittsburgh-penguins-lines\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Penguins lines: projected lineup and starting goalie \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Muse took a couple of minutes to address Kindel\u2019s situation Wednesday during his radio coach\u2019s show on the Penguins flagship station, 105.9 the X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe\u2019s doing better,\u201d Muse said. \u201cWe\u2019re hopeful that he\u2019ll be traveling back to Pittsburgh today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He has two goals, four points in nine games this season. He played Monday against the Mammoth in what was the Penguins\u2019 fourth loss in four games on a road trip. He had no points and played 18:53, but had a strong scoring chance that could have tied the game late in the third period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Penguins often travel late at night after games but opted this time to come home the next day in this instance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cObviously, it was a scary moment,\u201d Muse said of Kindel\u2019s episode on the plane. He did not describe the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the delay, the team returned to Pittsburgh later Tuesday but canceled its practice scheduled for Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Penguins president of hockey operations\/general manager Kyle Dubas is expected to address Kindel\u2019s status further when he meets with reporters Thursday morning. Muse deferred to Dubas in terms of any other details about Kindel\u2019s prognosis and situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Muse also said he did not have an update on veteran winger <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/bryan-rust\/\" class=\"pb-player-link\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryan Rust<\/a>, who left Monday\u2019s game after going awkwardly into the boards. He has a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins winger Ben Kindel is improving and could travel back to Pittsburgh as soon as Wednesday, coach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1064,10170,7052,73,75,74,1067,18800],"class_list":["post-311481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-ben-kindel","tag-bryan-rust","tag-dan-muse","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-shelly-anderson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311481","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=311481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}