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Finally, someone has come out and implicated NHL players with the use of performance enhancing drugs.  Gary Bettman has always blatantly brushed off any questions involving the NHL and PED use for years (beer maybe, but nothing illegal).  He’s so confident in his claims, that he feels there is no need to test players in the post-season .

Think again Gary, you prick.  The players are bigger now than they ever were, they fight more, and how else can men over the age of 35 endure the hectic travel schedule and physical grind of the modern NHL?  Drugs, that’s how.  Don’t give us any shit about some tireless work ethic either.

The NHL was quick to respond to reports that two steroid dealers arrested in Florida who claim to have sold steroids to both the Washington Nationals and Washington Capitals.  Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly released a statement concerning the reports , stating that:

The Washington Capitals have no knowledge of any aspect of this allegation. Capitals players were subjected to no-notice testing five separate times over the past two seasons pursuant to the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement and there was no indication of any improper conduct or wrongdoing.”

Well of course the club has no knowledge of any aspects of the allegations, we’ve heard that before from baseball teams.  It’s not the team’s duty to know what their players may or may not be injecting into their asses in bathroom stalls.  Wake the fuck up and take this seriously.   I can’t think of any sport that openly embraces the side effects of ‘roid rage more openly than hockey.  That’s not a shot at the game either, I love the rough stuff and the scraps, but there’s room for an argument there.

The NHL has two options here: they can choose to face this head-on, even if that means outing some of their superstars as cheaters (there’s some pretty big names on the Caps) or, they can choose to continue being complete fucking idiots and deny that there is a problem.

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