from Helene Elliott of the LA Times,

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, who has stated in the past that there is no proven link between repeated concussions and the degenerative brain disease Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), declined to respond Monday when asked if he still holds that opinion....

"I'm not going to start another news cycle. There's nothing new on the subject," Bettman said during a news conference before the Vegas Golden Knights hosted the Washington Capitals in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final.

Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly, sitting beside Bettman, added, "This is not the commissioner's view. It's the science view. So all we're doing is reiterating what the scientists have concluded, which is there's not enough information to draw that link."

Ann McKee, a neuropathologist who heads the CTE Center at Boston University's School of Medicine and is considered an authority in the field, has diagnosed CTE in several NHL players. "The NHL is really in the dark ages," she recently told the Canadian TSN network.

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