NHL To Begin Drug Testing

Last November, Richard Pound, the president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, made headlines in North America when he claimed as many as a third of the players in the NHL take some form of performance-enhancing substances.

According to a report in the Globe and Mail of Toronto, the world will find out if Pound's statements are correct beginning Sunday.

On Thursday, the Globe and Mail reported the NHL will begin the drug testing included in the new collective bargaining agreement Sunday. Previously, the NHL had no drug-testing policy.

"I know I've been constantly watching what I put in my body," Edmonton Oilers defenseman Chris Pronger told the Globe and Mail on Wednesday. "I think this process has us on edge because it's not an exact science.

"When you play 82 games, 28 to 30 minutes a game, you need to replenish your system with a protein shake now and again. But you're putting a lot of faith in the company that makes the protein powders. When these products are made, you never know what substances get mixed up or left on the conveyer belt."

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