1/3rd of the NHL is on performance enhancing drugs.

Well if Dick Pound said it, it must be true, right? Dick doesn't have access to NHL locker rooms or athletes and doesn't have the slightest first hand evidence of drug use in professional hockey. He pulled the 1/3 figure directly out of his ass. It was a grossly irresponsible statement and just another example of Dick being ... well ... a dick.

With the olympics coming up we will see if Dick pound is correct.

Hockey has a serious problem. Many of my Junior A friends have admitted to me that they have taken the 'crank'. Whether the NHLer are on it daily or used it to get there is hard to say. I think that testing should be throughout the hockey ranks, just like track and field.

Plus Dick said performance enhancers... he made a general statement. I know the NHLPA tested all its members, and they made it known that we going to test and they still caught people, albeit only 1-2%. Nothing happened to these people who were caught! and the results of the test we not released to the public. I can assure you that the testing my the nhlpa was probably just urine testing and not up to the standards of WADA.

i comment dick for his courageous attack of all sports regarding this issue.

the question is, does anyone actually care?

You must be doped in Hockey to be able to fight for a full 10 rounds...I mean 3 periods.

when jiri fischer had his seizure, the first thing i thought was SPEED.

i am a huge hockey fan and i know what goes on. i think pound is right.

Is 1/3, perhaps, roughly the percentage of non-Canadians playing in the NHL these days?

Speed. Haha good suggestion. I appreciate your wit. I would estimate that far more than 1/3 of the nhl's that are non canadian.

Dick went after baseball and got the ball rolling there, i think hockey and then football are just the next on his list... maybe boxing after that.

The short summary in my local paper basically had Pound saying the NHL has a drug problem and an NHL person saying Pound is a loudmouth jerk who doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. These are no mutually exclusive, and I'm sure both are correct.

I would say Dick is correct, now I am a good ol' Canadian boy who played hockey my whole life! And I wouldnt say 1/3 uses steroids, but in terms of things liek ephedrine, and other things to give you more energy, well these guys are f***ing wound up on the shit!! In my last coupel years of hockey as ephedrine became banned in canada, kids used to snort sudafed to get going, it is rampid, but f*** it , if the game is gonna be this good let it fly!!

I don't doubt there are some in hockey that use performance enhancing drugs. My point is that Dick's statement is completely irresponsible given that he has no way of knowing what the actual figure is. He probably should have said 3/4 just to make a bigger splash in the headlines because that is exactly what he was trying to do. I'm all for catching drug cheats, but you can't just make up a figure and pronounce it to the media without any shred of evidence. The man has no credibility whatsoever.

It's more like 80%. The Eastern Europeans are the worst.

FAR worse. Check out the size of these people.

Who's kidding whom?

The NHL is on the way out anyway: telecasting on the Outdoor Life Network?