No more "stimulants" in the NHL?

[#1STUD 0]

Im not trying to advertise this or anything, but i saw it on another forum and was wondering what you guys thought of it. The product is called lifewave patches. It claims that it is supposed to give you more energy. But all you do is stick it on your skin. I dont see how it would work. I am just curious as to what some of the other members of the board think about it since they know more about this kind of stuff.

If you want more info check this out. www.lifewave.com/jps

[Ogie Oglethorpe 14]

I forgot about Richard Jackman.  That's supposedly why Dallas moved him to Boston (and Boston to Toronto, and Toronto to Pittsburgh)

He just wasn't suited to be a #7 d-man.

He was a huge, blue chip prospect. Everyone wanted him (supposedly) at some point (well, not everyone - but you catch my drift).

Dallas valued him SO much, that before Recchi went to Philly, Montreal was going to send him to Dallas for Jackman and Dallas felt the cost was too large.

Look at Jackman's numbers - hugely talented (offensively) dman.

Add him into the Hitchcock/Gainey "D-first" era. Total square peg, round hole. Makes me wonder why they drafted him, but let's get past that.

Rumors had Jackman as chomping too hard at the bit. He got to the point where he was beyond learning anything more in the minors, but Dallas didn't have room for him in the NHL due to their veteran line up. He'd make defensive mistakes, and Hitchcock wouldn't give him a second chance.

Then, comes the NHL partying. From what I hear, he was BIG TIME into that scene. Dallas eventually said they'd use him as a winger, but he said no, wanted to play D. All this combined with his RUMORED habits, and it was time to move him.

So, he went to Boston (for what amounted to change - Cameron Mann who barely had a cup of coffee in Dallas - far cry from a potential Mark Recchi move just 2 or 3 years earlier). Boston WANTED a offensive dman. But.... for some reason, he didn't catch on. More rumors about his extra-curicular activities not making him stick/hinting at problems.

Boston moves him to Toronto, again, for what didn't amount to much (Vernasky, Vern-something - big kid, but don't remember much about him). Jackman changes his first name to "Ric" to get away from some negative stigma.

Even in offense first Toronto, Jackman doesn't cut it. Gets moved from Toronto to Pittsburgh for Berehowsky (Pitts trimming $$ from the roster).

NOW.... Jackman has finally put up some performance in Pitts consistant with why he was once highly touted. BUT, it's been a very long path.

Um.... ok, I think I went a bit far on this one, BUT, I guess what I'm saying is, the Jackman situation had to be more than just not suited to be #7. Their were too many rumors, and too many moves for it to be as simple as waiting to find a team that had room for him to crack the top line up.

(my reply really started off just being 2 sentences.... somewhere along the way I got WAY too long winded on this one!)

[Jim Bob 0]

They have been taking Sudaphed forever. They had to tell the NHL players to not take it when they started playing in the Olympics, otherwise they would have failed the testing policy.

Sudafed has been dropped from WADA's list of banned substances.

Apparently last spring the NHL and NHLPA agreed to a random drug testing policy that used WADA's banned substances list as the basis for what was illegal.

That testing program was used to cover last year's WCOH.

Hopefully that policy will be in effect when a new CBA is put in place.

[Jim A 4]

Sudafed was removed but still listed is what psuedoepenephrine metabloizes into, or something like that, when they were talking about the WADA ruling in other sports..

so you can take it per instructions for a cold, etc...but if you take advantage of it..you can still be punished....

[Langenbrunner15 0]

Wouldnt it get you sick if you took it every game??

[ktang 34]

I've heard 2nd-hand stories about nasal passages' blocking up from Sudafed over-use by hockey players. I don't know if this is an old wives' tale, but supposedly the Sudafed shrinks the nasal passages when it is in the bloodstream. Then, when it wears off, the body thinks that it is missing tissue in that area and thickens the passages, and over time...

[LetsGoWings13 0]

wouldnt eventually they build up a tolerance to it?

[ktang 34]

As the tolerance builds, the players start taking 2, then 3, then...