News about Chris Pronger

It's rare that athletes who suffer from cardiac arrest resurface and return to play. Bronny James may have the opportunity to do just that. Bronny, LeBron James' uncle and an incoming freshman at USC, had his heart stop at a basketball practice on Tuesday. He was admitted to Cedars Sinai hospital in Los Angeles and has since been released after going unconscious. Now, his journey to recover has begun. Young athletes' arrests are not new, nor is it believed to be a result of the COVID vaccine. Even before the pandemic, cardiac arrest was the most common cause of death among young athletes, with statistics indicating that 1 in 40,000 to 1 in 1 in 1 80,000 youth athletes suffer from sudden cardiac arrest each year.

Damar Hamlin, a defensive back for the Buffalo Bills, collapsed and went into cardiac arrest after a game this week in Cincinnati, and the horror that swept through the NFL was all too familiar to members of the hockey community. Five players in the NHL over the past 25 years who died during a game - horrific scenes that stopped play as people scrambled to help - were diagnosed with a heart-related disease of some sort. Chris Pronger, a big defenseman, was shot and killed after taking a puck to the chest. On the bench, Jiri Fischer, Rich Peverley, and Jay Bouwmeester all collapsed. Ondrej Pavelec's bow was put down on the ice.