A year after NHL commissioner Gary Bettman was accused of being "dismissive" in response to research of a potential link between concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), at least one concussion specialist is calling for more posthumous brain donations from hockey players.
Dr. Ann McKee, the director of Boston University's CTE Center, spoke with ESPN's John Cooper about ongoing efforts to track the damages of concussions in hockey. And it is apparent, at least to McKee, that the NHL is still lagging when it comes to CTE findings.
"We're not nearly as far in hockey [research] as we are in football because we just don't have the same numbers," McKee said, per Cooper.