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Blues' Jay Bouwmeester Undergoes Successful Heart Procedure

St. Louis defenseman Jay Bouwmeester underwent a successful Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) heart procedure at UC Irvine Medical Center in Anaheim, the team announced Friday.

Bouwmeester collapsed on his team's bench during the first period of Tuesday's Ducks-Blues game and suffered a cardiac episode.

Bouwmeester, who logged 5:34 of ice time in the game, had just cleared the puck and skated off the ice to the bench before collapsing. He was taken off the bench via a stretcher.

Following the incident, the Ducks tweeted that "there was a medical emergency near the Blues bench.