The Stanley Cup was passing through town Friday, and Lanny Legend took it upon himself to take it for a surprise visit. McDonald, who scored the winning goal of the Flames’ only Stanley Cup in 1989, took the cup over to visit one particular Calgary police officer who literally saved McDonald’s life when he experienced a cardiac arrest earlier this year. That was Const.
Jose Cives, who was on scene at the Calgary International Airport when McDonald collapsed there. Friday night, at a CPS fundraiser, McDonald showed up with the Stanley Cup and a few old Flames teammates, Tim Hunter, Colin Patterson and Rick Walmsley, to shoot some pictures, share some stories and celebrate the 35 th anniversary of winning the Cup with the man who greatly improved the odds that McDonald will be able to celebrate the 36 th as well. Cives recalled the events of Feb.
4. “I got a call over the radio whereby I was informed that an adult male had collapsed, possibly (from) a heart attack," he said. "I raced down to the location they had given me automatically took over from the male that was doing chest compressions and continued from there on after.
"I’m told that we worked on him for 10 minutes solid," he added, "and together with the use of an AED there were many times that night when I thought that Lanny wasn’t going to make it through, but I wasn’t going to stop until I got some sort of result,” Cives said. “Well he is a local hero,” McDonald said. “Jose saved my life along wit.
