While recent media coverage has focused on widespread use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) in Major League Baseball (MLB) and the National Football League (NFL), such problems in the National Hockey League (NHL) have eluded media attention until recently when a Florida couple implicated the Washington Capitals in a steroid bust.Richard and Sandra Thomas claim to have sold anabolic steroids to the Capitals and the Washington Nationals in the MLB.
While the Capitals and the NHL have issued statements, the accusation still has Capitals’ fans and players feeling kicked in the teeth.
Nevertheless, it is naïve to think that no player except Sean Hill has tested positive for or used PEDs in NHL history since after the new drug testing policy was implemented—and suspended during the playoffs—in July 2005.
Given the prevalence of steroid use in professional sports, the NHL should carefully investigate the flippant claim to exonerate the players and be vigilant against PEDs as to not travel the same path as the NFL and MLB.
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As much as I'd like to believe this is a bunch of BS, I'll reserve judgment until more informatin is available. Sadly in sports today nothing would surprise me. But the two folks arrested in FLA don't have a lot of credibility in my book just yet.
So far, this is nothing more than mere innuendo and anecdotal garbage from two people arrested in FL who made a choice to throw a bunch of crap about the Washington Capitals. That said, this still needs to be fully investigated to sort the facts and either implicate specific athletes or fully exonerate them.
I believe "zero" in the story to date.
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