Sean Hill suspended for juicing

[Gaborik41 0]

hill gave a bad name to the National Hockey League. we were one of the last professional sports leagues that had no record of performance enhancing drugs, but leave it up to a guy like hill to screw over the NHL. jeez, the NHL is already losing popularity in the states, what more needs to be done until hockey completely looses everything in the states. we are far from that but mi just saying that with a few more Hill accidents, Bertuzzi accidents, more Chris Simon accidents, and Jamie McLennan and hockey might just fall off of the earth

[TheBert 0]

It's rare for hockey players to get caught doing this sort of thing, but the NHL needs to throw the book at offenders. No "Barry Bonds" please.

[ktang 34]

I'm surprised we haven't heard anything from Dick Pound yet.

[willc7786 0]

A coach can point and say, check his stick, at any point during the game, getting immediate results. You can't do that with drug testing. That's the difference.

My proposal would be start testing earlier, so you aren't finishing the process in the first round of the playoffs, and have more tests.

Actually, there's quite a bit of testing. Every single player is tested right before the season starts, then every player is randomly tested twice during the season.

While its not released what substance he took, people also have to realize that a lot of banned substances don't make someone "superhuman" (as someone said in this thread). A lot of times players in the other major sports take stuff that more then anything lets them recouporate faster and be less fatigued day in and day out.

As for when this went down, I'm thinking it was around the last time the Islanders played Montreal. Hill wasn't in the lineup that game, so I'm thinking either thats when he had found out he failed and had to appeal/retest, or his injury (which is what they said he was out with) was one of the common injuries that comes along with performance enhancing drugs, so he probably was on them a few weeks prior to that.

[hockechamp14 0]

As for when this went down, I'm thinking it was around the last time the Islanders played Montreal. Hill wasn't in the lineup that game, so I'm thinking either thats when he had found out he failed and had to appeal/retest, or his injury (which is what they said he was out with) was one of the common injuries that comes along with performance enhancing drugs, so he probably was on them a few weeks prior to that.

You contradict yourself here. You say it could be for recuperative properties that some steroids have, then say he could have been injured BECAUSE of taking steroids. The main thing is that unless he increased his strength faster than normal while on any steroid, any tendon or ligament injury would not be because of a steroid.

It is ridiculous how the fans want super human performances by the players night in and night out, yet when something like this happens, everyone talks about how sports are going to hell.

[willc7786 0]

Actually, if you've kept up with steriods in baseball at all, you'd find that I didn't contradict myself at all. There are many common injuries that (I don't know the science of it) are caued by taking steriods. Judging by the Rangers avatar of yours, I'll assume you might be from NY. Take Jason Giambi. The season before he admitted without admitting to taking anything, he missed a whole bunch of time with various injuries. It was then documented how these injuries are common to steroid users.

[hockechamp14 0]

Actually, if you've kept up with steriods in baseball at all, you'd find that I didn't contradict myself at all. There are many common injuries that (I don't know the science of it) are caued by taking steriods. Judging by the Rangers avatar of yours, I'll assume you might be from NY. Take Jason Giambi. The season before he admitted without admitting to taking anything, he missed a whole bunch of time with various injuries. It was then documented how these injuries are common to steroid users.

Show me where it is documented that people get injuries as a "side-effect" of steroids -- not a side effect of gaining more strength and size than the average lifter. Note that even average lifters can make quick enough gains where if they focus on maximal strength they become injury prone due to the body needing more time to adapt than the muscles.

Most of these people in the media don't know what the heck they're talking about with steroids. Has anyone seen the real sports episode talking about the steroid use?

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