2013-2014 NHL Season Thread: EVERY GOALIE MUST BE TRADED, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

[Sepukku]

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20...lind-right-eye

Poile now blind in his right eye; poor guy.

Definitely tough luck, although the news is almost a week old. Feel bad for the guy though, although to be fair I was only half watching Team USA lose to Canada too with the lack of intensity they played with for the middle 40 minutes of the game.

[Sepukku]

Hey bro, it's cool it's cool. We're in different conferences now, and Habs still have a soft spot in me heart.

nice jerseys, your kids must be the coolest kids in the 2nd grade

[Sepukku]

I tried so hard to be mad at Teemu and I couldn't do it

I couldnt either, I kinda wanted to see him finish the hat trick at the end, even if it meant running the score up further on USA

Edit: Apparently Zyrtec-D is a combination of Citirizine and Pseudoephedrine, and the dosage can range from 5-120mg taken twice daily. I'm not sure how much of that is Citirizine and how much is Pseudoephedrine. He's got to be at the top end of the dosage to test over 150mg (unless he took it right before the drug test).

Wow hearing the dosing size vs testing limits, I actually sorta question Backstrom a bit when I honestly didn't think anything bad of his failed test initially

[Judai]

Wow hearing the dosing size vs testing limits, I actually sorta question Backstrom a bit when I honestly didn't think anything bad of his failed test initially

what, testing has 150mg as fail. pill is 120mg, taken 2x a day.

[Obsidian]

I was still curious, so From Wikipedia:

Pseudoephedrine is excreted through urine and concentration in urine of this drug shows big inter individual spread, that is, the same dose can give a vast difference in urine concentration for different individuals [21] Pseudoephedrine is approved to be taken up to 240 mg per day. This dose gave in seven healthy male subjects a range in urine concentration of 62.8 to 294.4 microgram per milliliter (µg/ml) with mean ± standard deviation 149 ± 72 µg/ml [22] Thus, normal dosage of 240 mg pseudoephedrine per day can result in urine concentration levels exceeding the limit of 150 µg/ml set by WADA for about half of every user.

According to drugs.com 120mg is the maximum normal dosage, twice a day, for allergies. Shitty situation.

[Sepukku]

what, testing has 150mg as fail. pill is 120mg, taken 2x a day.

not saying it proves guilt, but it definitely opens the door for questions. 2x a day drugs usually means the liver processes it all out in roughly ~12 hours, its not like they last 24 hours per dose and hes always got 240mg in him. And even then, thats the very highest dose in the dosing range.

[Ratatapa]

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20...lind-right-eye

Poile now blind in his right eye; poor guy.

Holy shit

[Izzy]

not saying it proves guilt, but it definitely opens the door for questions. 2x a day drugs usually means the liver processes it all out in roughly ~12 hours, its not like they last 24 hours per dose and hes always got 240mg in him. And even then, thats the very highest dose in the dosing range.

I generally take way over the dosage of Sudafed that I'm supposed to, otherwise it doesn't even work. If he's had headache issues his whole life, I'm sure he's doing the same.

[Sepukku]

I generally take way over the dosage of Sudafed that I'm supposed to, otherwise it doesn't even work. If he's had headache issues his whole life, I'm sure he's doing the same.

you bashed Anna, who gives a fuck about your first hand accounts of the discussion topic

[Obsidian]

I generally take way over the dosage of Sudafed that I'm supposed to, otherwise it doesn't even work. If he's had headache issues his whole life, I'm sure he's doing the same.

It's worth noting that in all the unnecessary reading I did today, the only type of headache I saw Pseudoephedrine being used to treat were those caused by sinus congestion (which Pseudoephedrine relieves). If it's not a sinus-related thing, I'm not sure why he's taking it, but if he's been taking it for seven years it must be working.

[Sepukku]

*that moment when I remember my post-Sochi schedule observation before the Olympic break where the Pens play back-to-backs @ANA/@SJ, WSH/@WSH, and then PHI/@PHI.*

Fuck.

[Richybear]

A ye olde article, but somewhat valid nonetheless:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/fea...html?mobile=no

[Ratatapa]

*that moment when I remember my post-Sochi schedule observation before the Olympic break where the Pens play back-to-backs @ANA/@SJ, WSH/@WSH, and then PHI/@PHI.*

Fuck.

Wednesday red wings Thursday penguins ....

[Ratatapa]

So about that Msl thingy, he did confirmed he wanted to get traded, which kinda surprised me

And he confirmed that he still wanna get traded trade deadline will be interesting

[Xajii]

i don't want to be that guy but let's be real here this isn't for allergies

you have players coming out form the past saying that everyone in the league has at least tried sudo for its stimulant effects and that tons of people use it actively. again, it's totally legal in terms of NHL rules

sounds like he or a trainer calculated half life wrong, what 190 with a 150 limit says to me is he took one pill on the day he was supposed to but forgot to not take one the day before

[Sepukku]

i don't want to be that guy but let's be real here this isn't for allergies

you have players coming out form the past saying that everyone in the league has at least tried sudo for its stimulant effects and that tons of people use it actively. again, it's totally legal in terms of NHL rules

sounds like he or a trainer calculated half life wrong, what 190 with a 150 limit says to me is he took one pill on the day he was supposed to but forgot to not take one the day before

makes you wonder if people who struggle in Olympic events abuse this since they have to go off it.

SID MAKES METH

[Aksannyi]

Wouldn't have ever considered allergy meds an "upper" since they basically only make my head less foggier than before.

[NynJa]

i don't want to be that guy but let's be real here this isn't for allergies

you have players coming out form the past saying that everyone in the league has at least tried sudo for its stimulant effects and that tons of people use it actively. again, it's totally legal in terms of NHL rules

sounds like he or a trainer calculated half life wrong, what 190 with a 150 limit says to me is he took one pill on the day he was supposed to but forgot to not take one the day before

Pretty much...regardless if its circumstance, or THE FIX IS IN, or whatever multitude of reasons, the IOC rules state that psuedophedrine is illegal past a certain quantity, and he was passed that certain quantity, based on the fact that there have been NO accounts of "whoa I've never taken this". It sucks, it ultimately casts a shadow over Canada's win with "what if", but the fact remains he DID have drug in his system past the IOC accepted amount, and the only people at fault is him and the team doctor.

[Thoronas]

Just found out a friend won tickets to the heritage classic on Sunday. Think I might be going with him.

[Selamis]

Nice! I'll be at the outdoor game Saturday against the Pens, should be a blast.