In a letter to Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal, Gary Bettman said that there’s not enough evidence to connect head injuries to chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
Although he indicated that research will be ongoing, he also adamantly denied that any connections between head trauma and CTE had been demonstrated.
He said that there had been no “causal link between CTE and concussions in team sports generally, much less in NHL hockey.”
This is an odd quote, because he seems to be implying that concussions in any team sport are different from one another.
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