In a news conference before the series

The NHL has drawn the ire of critics for how it confronts concussions. A lawsuit brought by former players has surfaced a series of damning internal NHL emails about how it treated concussions. Ann McKee, who heads the CTE Center at Boston University, recently told Canadian network TSN that the NHL is “in the dark ages” regarding concussions and called its stance toward them “laughable” and “ridiculous.”

Commissioner Gary Bettman has said he does not believe there is proof of NHL 18 Coins a link between concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the degenerative brain disease several deceased hockey players have been shown to have. In a news conference before the series, Bettman was asked whether he still believed that.