As Sports Illustrated broke the story, and as Larry Brown reported here on FanHouse, 14 professional wrestlers have been linked to an illegal steroids distribution network. One of those grapplers is Adam "Edge" Copeland, whom SI reports received "somatropin, genotropin (both HGH), and stanozolol between September 2004 and February 2007" from the steroids pipeline.Along with being the only wrestler to win all six championships on RAW and Smackdown -- quite the achievement, I imagine -- Edge was also a featured blogger for NHL.com during the Stanley Cup Playoffs, part of a gaggle of celebrities featured on the league's NHL Connect pages. (The scale of "celebrity" ranged from Christie Brinkley to Stephen Colletti from MTV's "Laguna Beach.") Edge, who began his career in the WWE wrestling with a vampire, grew up in Toronto but is an unabashed fan on the New Jersey Devils and Marty Brodeur:
I still love the Leafs and fondly remember watching them beat the Islanders in the '78 semi-finals with all my uncles and grandpa in the basement. However, as I've stated I am a fan of the goaltender. From Glenn Hall to Marty Brodeur. And therein lies the reason I love the Devils. Glenn "Chico" Resch, Sean Burke and of course, Brodeur. Meanwhile the Leafs had Ken Wregget and Alan Bester.As you can see, Edge is a knowledgeable hockey guy, even if he only blogged a few times during the postseason. Could an image-conscious league like the NHL bring him back, after this apparent steroid entanglement and with hawks like Dick Pound ready to strike? Consider that Edge was added to NHL.com in March -- the same month in which Sports Illustrated reporters Luis Fernando Llosa and L. Jon Wertheim first named him as being part of the steroid ring.
If it wasn't a problem then, why should it be a problem next spring? Besides, if NHL.com hired its bloggers with consumption of illegal substances in mind, then the Atlanta Thrashers may be in the market for a new one.
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