On Thursday, New Jersey Devils defenseman Ben Lovejoy became the first active NHL player to announce he's donating his brain to concussion research, making the announcement with the Concussion Legacy Foundation in an effort to find treatment for chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
"If announcing this gains awareness, I'm very excited," Lovejoy told ESPN on Thursday. "The reaction has been very positive. I didn't think this was going to be a big deal, and I've gotten so many congratulatory texts."
Concussion Legacy Foundation is the outreach arm of the VA-BU-CLF Brain Bank, a partnership with Boston University and the U.