Lundqvist's Heartbreak: RP Forced Me Out of the NHL! | BT & Sal
WFAN Daily
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🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
BT & Sal are joined by former New York Rangers legend Henrik Lundqvist and Dr. Jonathan Salik to raise urgent awareness about Recurrent Pericarditis (RP), a chronic and often misdiagnosed heart disease. Lundqvist details how RP forced his retirement following open-heart surgery, calling the condition a major "life disrupted."
The King also weighs in on the current Rangers squad, addressing their embarrassing zero-goal start at home and reflecting on the frustration of his own career, where he often carried deficient offensive teams. The hosts conclude by placing Lundqvist on New York's "Mount Rushmore of Heartbreak," alongside greats like Patrick Ewing and Don Mattingly—legends revered for their greatness but lacking a championship ring.
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| 0:30.4 | BT and I are joined by Henrik Lunkwist and Dr. Jonathan Selik, who, you know, look, helped save Hank's life here, and they're going to get |
| 0:39.0 | in some of the details. Approximately 40,000 people each year are treated for recurrent pericarditis, |
| 0:45.4 | 20,000 cases new each year in the U.S., and they're trying to raise awareness of a chronic |
| 0:50.8 | heart disease that's often misdiagnosed. We welcome to the show, Henrik Lundquist and Dr. Jonathan Salick. |
| 0:56.8 | Hank, why do you tell us first about why you're on with this and bringing awareness to this |
| 1:00.4 | disease? |
| 1:02.9 | Well, RP, recurrent perkyitis changed my life in a big way. |
| 1:07.9 | It forced me to retire from hockey. |
| 1:10.6 | You know, coming off an open heart |
| 1:12.0 | surgery. I was close to get him back to the NHL and then I was diagnosed with RP and it was |
| 1:18.4 | a lot of unknown, a lot of questions. And again, it changed my life a lot. So now, you know, |
| 1:27.2 | four years later, it's part of my life a lot. So now, you know, four years later, it's part of my life. |
| 1:30.3 | I'm still trying to, you know, I figured it out, but it's about listening to your body. |
| 1:37.3 | It's about educating yourself and get a good game plan in place. And that's why I feel like this is a great opportunity, you know, to spread awareness |
| 1:47.2 | through this campaign, Life Disrupted.com and help other people out there that have similar |
| 1:52.9 | experiences. |
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