News outlet reveals irrefutable evidence of performance enhancing drug abuse in the NHL.

A major scandal for the National Hockey League.

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News outlet reveals irrefutable evidence of performance enhancing drug abuse in the NHL.

Most fans who follow professional sports very closely are often very cynical when it comes to the topic of performance enhancing drugs and with good reason, the drugs are always ahead of the tests, and custom designer drugs, the kinds used by multi-millionaire pro athletes, don't have any tests to detect them until the testers become aware of their existence.

Despite that, the news from French newspaper Le Monde today came as a major shock and provided irrefutable evidence that there is performance enhacing drug abuse going unchecked in the National Hockey League.

Our readers will remember that we reported on a massive doping scandal that occurred in Russia earlier this year, when an entire Russian team was implicated in performance enhancing drugs use, and that team was subsequently scrapped and a new roster put forward. New evidence from Le Monde has linked that scandal all the way back to the NHL.

According to the French paper after a thorough investigation it was determined that this wasn't an isolated incident, and in fact hundreds of athletes were later impacted in this mass doping scandal, including 14 ice hockey players. Le Monde reports that of the players on the roster in question, only 5 were not players currently on NHL contracts, meaning that even if all 5 of those players were among those who tested positive, it would leave a minimum of 9 positive tests from players under NHL contract.

While we have no way of knowing who tested positive, and likely never will, according to a report from Marco Normandin, the complete Russian roster in question is the following" 

Goaltenders - Sergei Bobrovsky, Alexander Eremenko, Semyon Varlamov

Defensemen - Anton Belov, Alexei Emelin, Andrei Markov, Evgeny Medvedev, Nikita Nikitin, Ilya Nikulin, Fedor Tyutin, Slava Voynov

Forwards - Artem Anisimov, Pavel Datsyuk, Denis Kokarev, Ilya Kovalchuk, Nikolai Kulemin, Evgeni Malkin, Valeri Nichushkin, Alex Ovechkin, Alexander Popov, Alexander Radulov, Alex Semin, Vladimir Tarasenko, Alexei Tereshchenko, Viktor Tikhonov

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