More wholesale 49ers jerseys than 200 players join NHL concussion lawsuit

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are 10 players, but there hundreds of guys that, they in the lawsuit, said Owens, who works for NBO Law in Beverly Hills, Calif. just haven been named yet. They going to be there. list of the 200 plus players was not made available when requested. Former New York Islanders centre Bob Bourne announced he joined the suit shortly after it was filed.

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Leeman and Vaive in recent days have politely declined comment about their involvement, deferring to Silverman and Owens, who said he did not know how many players would wind up being a part of it.

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don know how many living alumni there are in the NHL that have these significant problems, Owens said. don know that. But like in the NFL, it just matured over time. Once the players find out that, there may be hope for me. I might be able to get some help and some treatment to address my quality of life issues, I sure they be in contact. That settlement was worth US$765 million.

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Owens said there wasn any recruiting being done to get more players to join the cause. He sent tweets to several former players informing them of the case beginning Monday.

of our business that we ever done has all been by word of mouth. The players are the ones that talk amongst themselves, he said. I have knowledge as a player, like you have knowledge and like everybody else has knowledge, the word spreads. Back in the and the and the the person with all the knowledge and the power were the owners. They controlled the message. a statement released Monday evening, NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly called the subject matter serious and said the league intended to defend the case

Migrants from cross into Canada from the United States by walking down a train track early Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017, into the town of Emerson, Man. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods.