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Is the NHL doing enough to prevent concussions? Eric Lindros, others don't think so

“We can do more,” Eric Lindros, the former Flyers captain, said over the phone recently.

“To me, they’re just protecting their interests,’’ Keith Primeau, another Flyers captain, had said a day earlier.

“I don’t think you can plead ignorance, which is what they’re trying to do. And it’s scary.’’

Last month, a 2015 deposition given by National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman was unsealed in a federal courthouse in St. Paul, Minn. It was the latest small battle won or lost in an ongoing lawsuit brought against the league by more than 150 of its former players.