NHL players and executives denied allegations by World Anti-Doping Agency president Dick Pound that as many as a third of the league’s 700 players may take some form of performance-enhancing substances.
“I would respectfully suggest that Mr. Pound’s comments have absolutely no basis in fact,” NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly told The Canadian Press on Thursday. “I find it troubling, to say the least, that he would find it necessary to comment on something he has absolutely no knowledge of.”
In an interview for a story published Friday, Pound told the London Free Press on Thursday that he spoke to league commissioner Gary Bettman and told him he thought there was widespread use of performance-enhancing substances in the NHL.
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