Interesting accusations here...i don't see why dick pound would be lying here. furthermore, dick pound has some crazy parents for naming him dick. http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news;_y...B?slug=ap-pound-nhlsteroids&prov=ap&type=lgns NHL players, execs deny Pound's allegations of widespread steroid use in league November 25, 2005 LONDON, Ontario (AP) -- NHL players and executives denied allegations by World Anti-Doping Agency president Dick Pound that as many as a third of the league's 700 players may take some form of performance-enhancing substances. "I would respectfully suggest that Mr. Pound's comments have absolutely no basis in fact," NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly told The Canadian Press on Thursday. "I find it troubling, to say the least, that he would find it necessary to comment on something he has absolutely no knowledge of." In an interview for a story published Friday, Pound told the London Free Press on Thursday that he spoke to league commissioner Gary Bettman and told him he thought there was widespread use of performance-enhancing substances in the NHL. "I spoke with Gary and he said, `We don't have the problem in hockey,"' Pound told the newspaper. "I told him he does. You wouldn't be far wrong if you said a third." Asked if he meant performing-enhancing drugs, the Montreal lawyer replied, "Yes." NHL Players' Association executive director Ted Saskin bristled at Pound's statement. "Dick Pound's comments are incredibly irresponsible and have no basis in fact," Saskin said. "He has no knowledge of our sport and our players and, frankly, has no business making such comments." The NHL introduced random tests for performance-enhancing drugs in its new collective bargaining agreement. Players are subject to a minimum of two tests a year without warning. A first-time offender gets a 20-game suspension, a second offense calls for a 60-game suspension, and a third offense results in a lifetime ban. "The NHL has reached a deal with their players that looks as though they found an early copy of the baseball policy on the floor somewhere," Pound said after addressing students at the University of Western Ontario's law school. "Who's Dick Pound?" Vancouver Canucks forward Todd Bertuzzi said. "Tell him to come in our dressing room with our shirts off and we'll see how performance-enhanced we are. Tell him he can come hang out with me and see my workout. "Trust me, we're not." San Jose Sharks defenseman Scott Hannan acknowledged that it's possible some players take performance-enhancing drugs, but insisted Pound's assessment is inaccurate. "Am I naive in saying that nobody's ever used it or nobody is? Probably," Hannan said. "But as far as extensively, I think that's a baseless comment."
Makes you wonder how he arrived at 1/3. Why not half? 25%? 18.2%? I mean...when you're pulling numbers out of your ass...how do you settle on which one to use?
No kidding. I would collect hockey cards if I even knew one player that was good. The only names I remember are Hull, Lemieux. Who are good hockey players? The league seems to suck now.
I remember there was a black player named Francis...which probably only stuck in my head because he was black and had a surname the same as one of our players. Is he even still around?
Do you collect cards? I just bought an '05 Topps complete set (baseball). Didn't realize they were that cheap (50 bucks). I was a big collector 15-20 years ago, but had stopped.
Oh yeah. I collect. Stopped from about 1995-2000. But I have been making up for lost time on e-bay. This, in my opinion, is a good time to be collecting. Topps has been putting out some nice sets lately too.
you simply don't know the good players because you don't follow the sport. i don't follow baseball - so do i know lots of great baseball players - hell no...pujols, jeter, rodriguez, griffey jr., randy johnson, giambi, and uh...i'm running out of names. hockey: naslund, bertuzzi, alfredson, heatley, ovechkin, crosby, jagr, lemieux, sundin, thornton, kovalchuk, forsberg, iginla, gagne, st. louis, lecavlier, kiprusoff, hasek, luongo, and many more.
Im a casual follower of the NHL. I don't live and breathe it. I'll watch a period or two maybe on the freaking OUTDOOR LIFE CHANNEL NETWORK THING. Maybe five minutes. It's hard to follow the NHL when it comes on OLN. I knew I had OLN, but didn't know what channel. But from what i hear, the NHL has a bunch of good young talent. But the thing is, we won't know who they are unless they can market these guys.
i'm studying in canada, so they're shoving everything hockey to my face after last year's lock out. the 2 young guys that are lebron james - carmelo anthony hyped up type. sidney crosby and ovechkin.
great hockey players...not a great role model. but sorry, i forgot mentioning sakic and hejduk...they deserve to be on that list as well.
I'm not a huge Hejduk fan. Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled he's ours, but he seems one-dimensional to me. But then again, I'll fully admit I haven't followed hockey as thoroughly this season as in the past. Part of it is still anger from the lockout, part of it is my job takes up way too much time, part of it is that the NBA is more fun for me to watch. And it still hurts seeing Foppa in a Flyers sweater. Ugh.
