Mark Yetman is a proficient puck-stopper. But on Sunday, his heart was doing the stopping

One of Newfoundland and Labrador's most accomplished senior hockey players says he is "feeling good" following a scary incident Sunday at the arena in Mobile on the Southern Shore.

"I'm in good care and being looked after," Mark Yetman told CBC News via social media messaging from his hospital bed in St. John's on Monday.

Yetman, 35, is the starting goaltender for the Southern Shore Breakers, and was between the pipes on Sunday afternoon for Game 5 of the Avalon East Senior Hockey League championship series.

The best-of-seven series between the Breakers and the St. John's Caps is tied at two wins each, with the winner to compete for the Herder Memorial Trophy — symbolic of senior hockey supremacy in the province — against the West Coast Senior Hockey League champion.

But less than two minutes into Sunday's game, with both teams lining up for a face-off deep in the Southern Shore end, Yetman suddenly collapsed, hushing the more than 800 fans in attendance at the Ken Williams Southern Shore Arena.

One of those looking on was Jack Casey, league president.

"You don't see a young man like that drop to the ice very often," Casey said.

Luckily, there were highly trained medical personnel at the rink, said Casey, including Dr. Scott Bay, head coach of the opposing Caps' team.

"Within a minute he had ... three or four qualified people at his side," said Casey.

For nearly an hour, players, officials and fans looked on in stunned silence as medical personnel tended to Yetman. Yetman's fiancè, Alexis, and their daughter were among those holding their breath.

Yetman was eventually transported by road ambulance to a hospital in St. John's, where he continued to undergo tests on Monday, but was alert and able to write a few words about