NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, in the midst of an ongoing class action lawsuit with former players over concussions, continues to knowingly mislead the public about well-known science.
When senior U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal wrote of NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman's "ongoing indifference and disregard" for scientific evidence linking chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, to repetitive hits to the head (whether concussive or subconcussive), he was being polite.
When Sen. Blumenthal wrote that the NHL"would prefer that athletes remain ignorant of potentially very serious threats to their health," he was right.
Just as he, the ranking member of the Senate's Consumer Protection subcommittee, was right when he concluded the following:
"Most puzzling is why you attack others for asking these profoundly important questions.