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Pain, agony and 'years of duress': How hockey wive

@pearl · Ice Hockey · 3:12am - 27 Nov 2019

Pain, agony and 'years of duress': How hockey wives are fighting back over players' chronic brain injuries | CBC News

Wives of some retired hockey enforcers are in their own fight, taking on the NHL and commissioner Gary Bettman, seeking an acknowledgement of a link between fights and head injuries on the ice and long-term effects like degenerative brain disease.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hockey-players-enforcers-brain-injuries-1.5370444

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