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2024-25 NHL Thread

NHL PED testing seems almost designed to catch nothing
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Why haven't there been more PED cases in the NHL?

Do hockey players really not dope or is the system designed to allow them to hide? We ask NHLers, along with experts in the sports science field.
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A maximum of 60 players are tested in the offseason, and they are selected randomly.

Every team is subject to teamwide, no-notice testing once during training camp and once during the regular season. Individual players can be selected for random testing during the regular season and playoffs. Any time the testing takes place, it must be done "at work on the day of a scheduled practice or meeting." Testing does not occur on game days.

An official from another sports-governing association who works closely with the drug policy reviewed the NHL's guidelines and said, "Trust me, if a guy is using, he can slip through the cracks. Easy. It's the unlucky or truly careless guys that get caught."
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Panthers’ blueline now sports two defensemen who’ve been caught for PEDs (Schmidt when he was with Vegas).
 
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