NHL: five things we learned this week | Colin Horg...

Published Dec 07 2011 by Sport: Sportblog | guardian.co.uk

NHL: five things we learned this week | Colin Horgan

The life and death of NHL enforcer Derek Boogaard; conference realignment; and Calgary Hitmen Teddy Bear Toss

NHL talking points this week include the life and death of Minnesota Wild enforcer Derek Boogaard; conference realignment; and the Calgary Hitmen Teddy Bear Toss

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...Branch reveals : "Boogaard fell asleep while playing cards on the team plane, a teammate said. He passed out in corners of the team's dressing room. He was uncharacteristically late for meetings and workouts. Wild trainers and doctors warned Boogaard's teammates not to give him their prescription pills. Most N H L teams have about 10 affiliated doctors — specialists and dentists with practices of their own. Boogaard had learned that there was no system to track who was prescribing what. In one three-month stretch of the 2008-9 season with the Wild, Boogaard received at least 11 prescriptions for painkillers from eight doctors — including at least one doctor for a different team, according to records gathered by his father, Len Boogaard. Combined, the prescriptions were for 370 tablets of painkillers containing hydrocodone, typically sold under brand names like Vicodin." Um, whoa? That, to...

NHL: five things we learned this week | Colin Horgan [Sport: Sportblog | guardian.co.uk - Dec 07 2011]

...predictability. "Let's not forget what we're missing out on here: The utter chaos of a dozen teams scrambling for playoff spots in the last two weeks of the season, each with their own crazy math for getting into the postseason; and, in the end, the best teams in the NHL getting into the postseason rather than becoming the victims of their own division's dominance." And, he notes, forget...

NHL: five things we learned this week | Colin Horgan [Sport: Sportblog | guardian.co.uk - Dec 07 2011]

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