and other major sports like the NFL take tangible steps towards protecting their athletes from CTE, the NHL refuses to acknowledge the link. The NHL received the latest evidence against their ...

By the mid-2010s the evidence was so overwhelming that the National Football League — which had long denied a link between its sport and CTE — conceded it. Hockey isn’t immune to the impacts.

That’s one space where we are seeing CTE in women.” This research can apply to sports, as the pathology in the brain appears similar regardless of whether the head injury came from a sporting ...

Researchers at Boston University's CTE Center found that NHL legend Bobby Hull, who died in 2023 at age 84, suffered from Stage 2 CTE. CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) is a degenerative ...

Adam Minter is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering the business of sports. He is the author, most recently, of “Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale." The NHL doesn’t seem to mind.

The Hall of Fame forward showed symptoms of CTE — including short-term memory loss and impaired judgement — “for the last nearly 10 years of his life,” according to the release.