Getting your player ready...
Retired NHL enforcer Georges Laraque says in a new book that steroid use was commonplace for years in hockey dressing rooms. And it wasn’t limited to just the league’s bruisers, according to Laraque. “I have to say here that tough guys weren’t the only players using steroids in the NHL,” Laraque wrote. He said enforcers took substances such as ephedrine so they would be desensitized before a fight. “Before a game, I would always look at the tough guy on the other side,” he wrote. “If his arms were trembling, if his eyes were bulging, I knew for sure he wasn’t going to feel any of the punches I would give him.”
