Colorado Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog says it’s time to “stand up and speak up” about the effect of concussions in hockey.
His piece for the Players Tribune website, titled “We need to Talk About Concussions,” comes a few days after NHL commissioner Gary Bettman came under renewed criticism over the league’s position that there is “insufficient evidence” to link head injuries and degenerative brain disease.
Landeskog recalled his own experience with a concussion in January 2013.
“There’s just no way your brain comes away from that kind of collision unscathed,” he wrote.