Flames legend Lanny McDonald posts he’s out of hospital after cardiac event

CALGARY — The Calgary Flames have forwarded a message from Hockey Hall of Famer Lanny McDonald that he’s out of hospital following a cardiac event earlier this month.

The 71-year-old writes in an Instagram post, with a photo of him standing outside Calgary’s Foothills Medical Centre, that he’s ending his “two-week visit with new and improved pipes, some fancy hardware and a figuratively full heart.”

McDonald had posted on Feb. 5 that while he was returning from the NHL’s All-Star Game in Toronto, two nurses heading to their own flights at Calgary International Airport helped him when he was in distress.

The forward from Hannah, Alta., was co-captain of the Flames and the squad’s emotional leader when Calgary won the Stanley Cup in 1989.