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Former NHLer Would Vote Against Head Trauma Settlement Deal

Carcillo said he expected 80-90% of the players in the lawsuits to accept what the league was offeringGETTY IMAGES

Former NHLer Daniel Carcillo said that he would "vote against" the $18.9M settlement deal laid out by the league, according to Jeff Arnold of the N.Y. TIMES. Carcillo has "become one of the loudest critics of the NHL and the face of the lawsuits brought by former players" over concussions and head trauma. The payments to players involved in the lawsuit under the new deal amount to "roughly $22,000 per player and up to $75,000 to cover medical treatment." Carcillo said that he expected 80-90% of the players in the lawsuits to "accept what the league was offering." Arnold notes under the latest agreement, the NHL "does not acknowledge liability for the players' claims, which angers Carcillo." Carcillo said that he has "nothing against the players who will accept the settlement." But he noted it is "not for me." Carcillo believes that the NHL, its officials and the NHLPA are "throwing former players 'to the wolves.'" Carcillo said that he "wants the league to have better facilities and doctors for the diagnosis and treatment of brain injuries" (N.Y. TIMES, 11/15).

UNITED FRONT: SPORTSNET.ca's Elliotte Friedman wrote the difference between the NHL and NFL concussion settlements is that there "just wasn't the unity among the hockey players as there was in the NFL." The football settlement "involves almost 20,000 people, the hockey one slightly more than 300." Friedman: "There are going to be lingering hard feelings about that." The hockey lawsuit not getting class-action status was a "devastating blow, and no doubt the plaintiff lawyers were concerned about getting paid." There was also "much more evidence against the NFL than has been found against the NHL to this point." The settlement serves as a reminder that Commissioner Gary Bettman and the NHL "will not back down from very public, very hard body blows." But the good news for the plaintiffs is that the "smaller dollar amount (and fewer number of collectors) makes it more likely they can avoid what's happened in football." The distribution of the NFL's settlement money has been "plagued by problems" (SPORTSNET.ca, 11/14).

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