Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal wrote a letter to NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, imploring him and the league to bolster their efforts in raising awareness about the potential link between hockey and brain trauma.
Blumenthal released the letter Thursday. He cited prior comments Bettman made that seemed "dismissive" of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, and other head trauma in the aftermath of the NFL's first public acknowledgement of the link in its sport.
Regarding the comparison between the two major North American sports, the senator's letter read in part:
While hockey and football are certainly different, both are full-contact sports that likely present risks to their participants. Furthermore, it is clear from the deaths of six former NHL players—Derek Boogard, Reg Fleming, Bob Probert, Rick Martin, Steve Montador and now Larry Zeidel—whose brains have been determined to contain evidence of CTE, that the risks are certainly real.
Bettman tried to avoid the topic in his remarks from March, saying, per TSN.ca, "Well, first of all, I don't feel that it's either necessa ...
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US Senator Richard Blumenthal Writes Letter to NHL Regarding CTE, Head Injuries
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