The news comes as no surprise to anyone at all, nor does word that Peverley will be traveling to Cleveland in the next day or two to have a surgery to help regulate his heart rate - a procedure that was originally scheduled for the offseason, but is now being bumped up a few months in light of recent events.
The announcement that Peverley's season is over is the result of the horrifying drama that took place on Monday night at Bank of America Arena in Dallas where Peverley lost consciousness and collapsed - an episode which required the use of CPR and a defibrillator to save the 31-year-old's life.
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| Stars' coach Lindy Ruff listens as Rich Peverley speaks on Wednesday |
"On behalf of my wife, all of my family and myself I'd like to thank the number of people who saved my life," Peverley said, looking as if nothing ever happened. "They all attended to me once I passed out and they saved my life and I will forever be grateful." He then shook hands with all of the doctors and left the presser.
The game was suspended from the point of the episode just over six minutes into the match, and the league has yet to decide when and if the game will be rescheduled - and will only be rescheduled should it have any ramifications on playoff seeding.
Peverley was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat during a preseason physical, where Dimeff recanted that ha and his staff consulted with the team and Peverley and discussed his options going forward He played in 62 games this season, with seven goals and 23 assists.
"It likely would keep him out for two, three months, maybe longer, depending," Dimeff recalled from the consultation. "And so he said, 'I'm new to the team. It's a new coach, a new general manager. I only have a two-year contract. They've got to know that I can play this game,' and that sort of thing. So we went back and forth.
"That was a joint decision, an informed decision on his part, again in consultation with the cardiology department here and our other consultants." Dimeff continued.
The team doctors insisted that Peverley wear a heart monitor during practice and to have his pulse checked at several intervals during physical activity, plus he wears a device that will alert him if he experiences and break from normal heart rhythm, and Peverley has stated that he knows when it's happening just from the way he feels.
But none of those things were in play on Monday night, which gives pause to every member of the organization, the medical team and Peverley himself - but when Dimeff was posed with the question as to whether Peverley could continue his career, he declined discussion.
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