Some quick thinking hockey players helped to save a teammate who suffered a heart attack yesterday.

Ottawa paramedics were called to Jim Durrell arena just after 5 p.m. They say a 66-year-old man suffered sudden cardiac arrest while on the ice.

Teammates quickly started CPR and another person in the arena successfully used a public access defibrillator.

The man was awake and talking and was taken to the General Hospital in serious but stable condition.