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From a sports fan’s perspective, the Roger Clemens-Brian McNamee congressional hearing soap opera was compelling and titillating, in a detached sort of way. From a hockey magazine editor’s perspective, it was thought-provoking and wheel-spinning, in a “what could this mean to us” sort of way. The more I noodled it, the more I came back to the conclusion the NHL is being presented with a glittering opportunity to win friends and influence people…and perhaps even grow its fan base along the way. How? By satiating the public’s appetite for morality and becoming the gold standard, the undisputed heavyweight champion, of drug testing in professional team sports. Those attached to the game will tell you its testing policies are already stringent. Players are subject to at least one, and as many as three, “no notice” tests during... [read full story]
