It was going to be just any other game, until, shockingly, it wasn’t.
On Nov. 19, just as the opening faceoff was about to get underway, Roadrunners captain Craig Cunningham collapsed to the ice.
Teammates looked on in horror, fans were stunned into silence, referees skated over and frantically beckoned medical attention. Trainers, EMTs, even a group of firefighters who happened to be on the ice to perform the national anthem, rushed to his aid.
Recently, Cunningham’s doctors detailed the frightening situation: He’d suffered a cardiac arrest on the ice and required more than 85 minutes of nonstop CPR.
The 26-year-old former Boston Bruins and Arizona Coyotes forward held his first press conference since the incident on Dec. 21, announcing his imminent release from Banner-University Medical Center.
