from the CP at Sportsnet,

The commissioner of the National Hockey League says it would be impossible to ban all hits to the head and maintain hockey as a physical game as it is today.

Gary Bettman says larger players would inevitably land blows on smaller players’ heads in the normal course of play.

Testifying in front of a panel of MPs on Parliament Hill, Bettman says the game he oversees is safer for players and different in terms of physical contact from football, where there are repeated blows to players’ heads.

Bettman also says he hasn’t seen any evidence to link long-term brain damage and multiple blows to the head while playing the game.

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