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Re: The Future of Sports

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Originally Posted by John Gutmann View Post
Well then again it isn't good to have NFL sized guys trying to be agile. Hockey is about speed an agility. There is no doubt strength plays a role, but it isn't like they are trying to hold each other down. In hockey that is of course illegal. It is like a ping pong player using steroids to pump up his legs muscles. In fact the first thing I thought f after reading the OP's post is "The NHL doesn't have a problem"

-John
While that may be (semi) true in the post-lockout NHL, it definitely wasn't true in the pre-lockout era. In the early half of the decade, NHL hockey was all about size, hitting, interference (essentially holding each other down), and trapping defense. And while the NHL had no official testing policy during that era, many players were tested in international competitions such as the Olympics. Not a single NHL player failed one of those tests.
And steroids have uses other than creating NFL lineman sized behemoths. You wouldn't want to be that bulky in cycling or track, yet both of those sports have had major steroid controversies.

The NHL, for some reason, has been magically a much cleaner league than most others over the past few years. By no means is it perfect. Todd Bertuzzi, Sean Hill, and Rick Tocchet have created major scandals in the hockey world. But Rick Tocchet never bet on NHL games or fed NHL related info to those who would be placing bets, unlike the similar controversy in the NBA. Sean Hill is the lone steroid suspension in the NHL, unlike the multiple in the NFL and MLB. Todd Bertuzzi is somehow still in uniform, but his actions are no worse than those of Albert Haynesworth (NFL) or Jose Offerman (baseball).
Sure the NHL has fighting, but name the last time you saw a bench-clearing brawl in the NHL. I can't even think of one, and I don't think one has happened in my lifetime. Now compare that to other major team sports. The University of Miami and Florida International University just last year in NCAA Football. And we all know about what happened between the Pacers and Pistons. Etc.

For some virtually unexplainable reason, the NHL has been a league with a seemingly clean record in terms of scandals (well, aside of the lockout, but that's a whole different matter). And steroids isn't an exception to that phenomena.
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