NHL player alert after suffering cardiac episode during Blues-Ducks game

Jonathan Kozub/NHLI via Getty Images(ANAHEIM, Calif.) — A player with the NHL’s St. Louis Blues was rushed to the hospital after collapsing on the bench during Tuesday night’s game against the Anaheim Ducks, causing the remainder of the game to be postponed. Defenseman Jay Bouwmeester, 36, suffered a cardiac episode and collapsed on the St. Louis bench after completing his shift, according to a statement by Blues General Manager Doug Armstrong. Medical trainers and team physicians were able to stabilize Bouwmeester, who was alert and moving all of his extremities as he was transported to UC Irvine Medical Center, the statement