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Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee Thank you. I'd like to pick up where we left off. We might have our definitions mixed up. I want to go again to this belief that if you have fighting, it might deter other kinds of blows to the head. You're saying that I'm asking you to prove a negative. In fact, I'm asking you
May 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Doug EyolfsonLiberal
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee How does this compare with forms of hockey where you don't have any fighting? Are you saying that there are more concussions or more head injuries and concussions in Olympic hockey?
May 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Doug EyolfsonLiberal
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee Okay. It's evolving out, and that is good. I'm glad to hear that. The fact that, again, it's still there—
May 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Doug EyolfsonLiberal
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee I'd like to offer a contrary opinion by a player. You said the players want fighting. This is hardly unanimous among players. Nick Boynton wrote a piece called “Everything's Not O.K.”. You're probably familiar with it.
May 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Doug EyolfsonLiberal
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee He said that there's, and I quote, “a dangerous culture in the league that leaves players open to brain damage, mental illness and substance abuse”, and he connected many of these issues to head trauma suffered in fights. How do you respond to that? How do you respond to a play
May 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Doug EyolfsonLiberal
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee You should have none, quite frankly. It is still dangerous—
May 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Doug EyolfsonLiberal
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee Well, it's 50% as per your [Inaudible—Editor].
May 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Doug EyolfsonLiberal
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Bettman, for coming. I'm an emergency physician. I practised for 20 years. I'm familiar with head injuries in sporting and non-sporting events. I've seen injuries in football, rugby, soccer and hockey, but hockey is the only sport I've seen
May 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Doug EyolfsonLiberal
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee No, sir. The players, sir, don't make the rules. I have played a number of sports. I have never played a sport where, as a player, I had any say in the rules. In other forms of hockey, like Olympic hockey, you don't see fighting. The NHL could make these rules that completely r
May 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Doug EyolfsonLiberal
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee —so why don't you?
May 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Doug EyolfsonLiberal
May 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Doug EyolfsonLiberal
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee I'm going to have to cut you off because I have very little time here.
May 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Doug EyolfsonLiberal
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee You said that the threat of fighting deters other kinds of injuries.
May 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Doug EyolfsonLiberal
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee What is that based on? Is there empirical evidence that—
May 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Doug EyolfsonLiberal
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee That's what they tell you—
May 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Doug EyolfsonLiberal