{"id":430787,"date":"2026-01-27T15:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/430787\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T15:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:31:12","slug":"sabres-star-rasmus-dahlins-fiancee-reveals-devastating-health-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/430787\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres star Rasmus Dahlin&#8217;s fianc\u00e9e reveals devastating health update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo Sabres captain Rasmus Dahlin\u2019s fianc\u00e9e, Carolina Matovac, shared her pregnancy loss in an emotional Instagram message Monday, explaining that their unborn baby \u201cplayed a vital role\u201d in <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/08\/sports\/sabres-star-ramus-dahlin-leaves-team-to-be-with-fiancee-after-heart-transplant\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">discovering her heart failure last summer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Matovac underwent a heart transplant after she remained on life support for weeks while the couple was on vacation in France, Dahlin <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/19\/sports\/sabres-rasmus-dahlin-shares-story-of-fiancees-near-death-experience\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously explained in a letter<\/a> shared by the Sabres last September.<\/p>\n<p>She noted that Monday was their unborn baby\u2019s due date, while including a photo of her being transported to a French hospital on a medical plane with Dahlin by her side.<\/p>\n<p>Sabres captain Rasmus Dahlin\u2019s fianc\u00e9e, Carolina Matovac, shared her pregnancy loss in an emotional Instagram message, explaining that their unborn baby \u201cplayed a vital role\u201d in discovering her heart failure last year. Instagram\/Carolina Matovac<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday was meant to be the day we finally met you,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DT-3jAFCGIz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Matovac, 25, wrote<\/a>. \u201cYou will always hold a special place in our hearts as our first baby, even though we never had the chance to meet. Our love for you is endless. Though you didn\u2019t get to experience this world, you played a vital role in ensuring that I could continue to be a part of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it weren\u2019t for my worries about you, we might never have called for help and gone to the hospital. Because of that decision, I was in the right place at the right time during my first heart failure. This is just one of the many reasons I am alive today, able to embrace a normal life once again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are our hero, and I hope you are being well cared for in heaven. We love you baby Matovac Dahlin \ud83d\udc7c\ud83c\udffb\ud83e\udd0d\ud83d\udd4a\ufe0f.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Buffalo Sabres captain Rasmus Dahlin (r) and his fianc\u00e9e, Carolina Matovac (l). Instagram\/Carolina Matovac<\/p>\n<p>Dahlin and Metovac, who\u2019ve been together for more than a decade, got engaged last year.<\/p>\n<p>The defenseman \u2014 and former No. 1 overall pick in the 2018 NHL draft \u2014 first revealed that his fianc\u00e9e had heart failure during the offseason last year, explaining that she felt sick for a few days and received life-saving CPR on multiple occasions. <\/p>\n<p>Rasmus Dahlin of the Sabres is pursued by Anthony Duclair of the Islanders during the first period at UBS Arena on Jan. 24, 2026 in Elmont, New York. NHLI via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>He thanked the \u201ctremendous nurses, doctors and rehabilitation staff\u201d at hospitals in Juan-les-Pins and Marseille, France and in Gothenburg, Sweden, where he is from.<\/p>\n<p>Dahlin also applauded the NHL, the players\u2019 association and the Sabres\u2019 owners,\u00a0the Pegula family.<\/p>\n<p>He went nine days between games earlier this season while attending to his wife, and has eight goals and 29 assists for the resurgent Sabres (29-17-5).<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buffalo Sabres captain Rasmus Dahlin\u2019s fianc\u00e9e, Carolina Matovac, shared her pregnancy loss in an emotional Instagram message Monday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5100],"tags":[1107,229,5133,5,4,4011,1108,43,7924],"class_list":{"0":"post-430787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-sabres","8":"tag-buffalo","9":"tag-buffalo-sabres","10":"tag-buffalosabres","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-rasmus-dahlin","14":"tag-sabres","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-wags"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115967786363021884","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}