ms. berman? >> i'm unaware of any discouragement and, to the contrary, we have a system in place where the nhl's centralized security department has contacts at every local team where if something like that was going on, i would hope we'd be hearing about it because it would certainly sly late league policy. >> thank you. >> are you finished? >> yes. >> okay. >> no? >> just an order of appearance. >> sure. >> chair, i defer to senator mccaskill. >> let me correct the record on the nba questions about punishment. i've looked at the articles and the seconds of counseling for violent misconduct. let me make sure the record is clear. the most a commissioner can do for violence without a conviction is counseling, isn't that correct, ms. behrens. >> no, senator, that's not correct. >> what can the commissioner do besides counseling if there's not a conviction? >> the commissioner has discretion under our collective bargaining agreement, which is the discretion that he used in the suspension of jeff tay

ms. berman.teve fehr special counsel for the national hockey league players association. >> thank you and if i might i would like to say i have never lived in west virginia but i've long been an admirer of the senator from west virginia and i would like to thank you for all you have done not just in holding this hearing but throughout your career night wish you the best in 2015 and beyond. with regard to the executive directors and ms. roberts being able to show up senator thune i would like to save the executive director of the nhl pa manages to have the same last name as i do. we have a long-standing commitment overseas and i'm told the hearing was next week or yesterday. there could be advantages and disadvantages to going last. i'm not going to read from my prepared statement i have appreciated that you placed in the record and parts of it would be repetitive not only with what ms. berman said about the nhl but my colleague have said on behalf of a basketball and baseball players. let me make