BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Sabres captain Rasmus Dahlin revealed Friday that his fiancée, Carolina Matovac, needed a lifesaving heart transplant over the summer.

In a message Dahlin and Matovac posted on the Sabres website on Friday , the defenseman outlined how his fiancée felt sick for several days during a vacation in France before her heart failed. He wrote that Matovac required CPR on “multiple occasions and up to a couple of hours at a time,” and then spent weeks on life support before receiving a new heart.

Dahlin said Matovac is “on the path to a full recovery” and is rehabilitating in Sweden before she can be cleared to travel and join him in Buffalo.

“Without her receiving lifesaving CPR, the result would have been unimaginable. It is hard to even think about the worst-cas

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