đź“ť by Ryan Holt | AHL On The Beat
The Bakersfield Condors’ Alex Stalock is a goaltender. Protector of the nets. A hockey player. A husband and a father of three.
And much like the rest of the world, the past two years have been difficult on the 34-year-old. It was November 2020 when the then-Minnesota Wild goaltender was diagnosed with myocarditis, a heart inflammation that can lead to cardiac arrest and a lingering symptom of COVID-19.
“I was completely asymptomatic,” Stalock told Michael Russo of The Athletic after being claimed on waivers by Edmonton, “but they think because I had no symptoms and had it in my system that because it was right at the time where we were ramping things up with skating and working out and ramping up for the season that my heart was working and working and working and started to get stressed and swell because of the virus in my system.”
Stalock had already gone through “the bubble” playoffs with Minnesota that past August. Little did he…
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