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The league accepted new drug policy and NHL players were subject to random drug testing starting Sunday.
World Anti-Doping Agency president Dick Pound created a stir in November when he claimed as many as a third of NHL players take some form of performance enhancing drugs.
Dallas Stars centre Mike Modano downplayed the significance of random drug testing, saying it was a knee-jerk reaction to the revelation of rampant steroid use in baseball.
"This is kind of the domino effect from baseball that's kind of trickled into the other sports," Modano said Sunday in Montreal where the Stars were preparing for Monday's game against the Canadiens.
"As much as it's floating around in baseball, I think everybody's opinion was that it's probably floating around in other sports, so everybody had to follow suit."
Modano wasn't opposed to increased drug testing because he said the temptation to do everything possible to be at your best is very high as a professional athlete.
"In any sport, there's a lot of expectations to perform at the highest level, and players get desperate and will do anything to keep their jobs and stay in the league," he said. "It depends how far you're willing to take that risk."
Montreal Canadiens defenceman Sheldon Souray thinks testing will help improve public opinion of athletes.
"I know a few years ago we all did random samples, and I think there was less than two per cent where anything showed up," he said. "So it's definitely not a problem in our sport. (continues below...)
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"If we can prove that and the public sees that, maybe it will put their minds at ease more than ours."
Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Bryan McCabe said he isn't too concerned about the drug testing.
Like many players, McCabe took exception to Pound's comments about NHL players and said he'd be surprised if there were any positive tests.
"I think we've got a pretty clean game here," McCabe said at the Leafs practice facility on Sunday. "I know for a fact (steroids) aren't (prevalent) in our league."
McCabe is a member of the taxi squad for Team Canada's entry at the Olympics in Turin, Italy, next month.
He says he's been very careful about what kind of supplements he takes because other Olympic athletes have inadvertently tested positive in the past after taking over-the-counter drugs.
"I take vitamins - that's it," he said. "I've got nothing to worry about."
Modano is a member of the U.S. Olympic team and says he was tested about six weeks ago.
He says that test does not have any penalties if it comes up positive, but that it serves to notify both athletes and Olympic officials of a potential problem.
"It's a good thing to know that if there's anything that's floating around, you can get it out of your system before the Games start," Modano said. "I think it's just a precautionary thing.
"When you do get in competition, if it is in there, then you've got some problems. We're well informed about what is good and what isn't good. The trainers know and everybody knows."
The NHL didn't have a drug policy until the league and the players agreed on one last summer as part of the new collective bargaining agreement.
The drug testing program wasn't activated until Sunday because the league and the NHL Players' Association wanted time to educate the players and teams' medical staffs on substance abuse.
Players will be tested randomly, up to twice a season, for prohibited substances such as anabolic steroids and growth hormones, but not stimulants such as ephedrine, which is found in some cold medications.
Souray says that's no big deal.
"I'm sure there are guys who take Sudafed, but it's probably no different than having three or four cups of coffee," he said. "If guys are on drugs because they're taking a pot of coffee a day, then there's going to be a lot of us."
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