Backstrom must be choked right now. The whole thing sounds pretty benign IMO.
Backstrom must be choked right now. The whole thing sounds pretty benign IMO.
Feel terrible for Backstrom. To be told a couple of hours before puck drop of the gold medal game that you cannot represent your country and team because you took an allergy medicine that contains a banned substance, is preposterous. Rumor is, he was pretty distraught after this incident.
After this, wont be surprised if he decides to not participating in the Olympics ever again or playing for team Sweden.
Question - did anyone see if he was allowed to accept the Silver medal? I am assuming he was, but if he wasn't, that is just plain inhuman/dumb.
League 1: 2021 Dobber Entry (Patrick), Yahoo Roto, 10 Teams
4C, 4LW, 4RW, 6D, 2G start; 5 Bench
Skaters: G, A, +/-, PPP, SOG, Hits
Goalies: W, Saves, GAA
Forwards:
C: Malkin, ROR, Backstrom
LW: Forsberg, Parise
RW: Gallagher, Hornqvist, D Brown, Kessel
Dual Eligibility: Svechnikov, Jamie Benn, Radulov, Domi, Rakell, Pavelski
Defense: Hamilton, Letang, OEL, Suter, Spurgeon, Girard
Goalies: Vasilevskyi, Lehner, Mrazek, Reimer
Sucks for Backstrom, but also rules are rules. It's not at all ridiculous that Backstrom wasn't allowed to play. Both he and Swedish team officials should have been way more on top of this, it's not like these guidelines are secret or hidden. Sure, it's one allergy pill he's taken every day for 7 years. Clearly he isn't doping to improve performance standards, but rules are rules and if they bend them this one time for this one player than there starts being arguments for bending them for other people and other reasons. Just a poor job by team doctors in not being aware of the levels that Backstrom had the drug in his system, as it didn't need to be zero, it just needed to be lower.
The only person who should be shot in all this is the Swedish doctor who clearly ****ed the pooch.
maybe he takes this 1 "allergy" pill daily cause its a seemingly harmless enhancer.
Reason I say that is, I got all kinds of allergies, dust, grass etc. which are most common allergies. And I only need to take em maybe 2-3 months during the summer.
I have a hard time believing that he needs an allergy pill EVERY day to not have effects.
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8-GM / WK-H2H
Forwards: G=2, A=1, PP/SH= +1, GWG= +2, Shootout G=1, HT= +1
D-Men/Captain: G=3/A=2
Goalies: W=3, OTL=1, SO= +2, SV= .10
Start = 13F, 6D, 2G / Keep 44 (3G)
Captain: Matthews
(F): MacKinnon, Pasta, Marner, Rantanen, Malkin, Barkov, M.Tkachuk, W.Nylander, Pettersson, Gaudreau, Laine, Keller, Miller, B.Tkachuk, Stutzle, DeBrincat, L.Raymond, K.Johnson, Cozens, Quinn, Guenther, Kulich, Cooley
(D): Makar, Dahlin, Q.Hughes, Ekblad, Rielly, Werenski, Letang, Jones, Chychrun, Seider, Edvinsson, Jiricek, Korchinski, Mintyukov, Ceulemans, Hutson
(G): Shesterkin, Demko, Vejmelka
IOC officials are still investigating as to whether or not he will receive one. So it hasn't been decided yet.
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I feel bad for Backstrom, but man was this ever a huge brain fart on his part. Even average Joes like myself know that you can't be popping allergy medications at the Olympics.
10 team, head-to-head, multi-cat, keep-12 keeper league. CATS: G,A,+/-,PPP,PIM,SOG,HITS BS,SHP, W,SV,SV%,GAA,SO Daily rosters of 6F, 4D, 2 Flex, 2G
F: Crosby, Hall, Pacioretty, Hartnell, Neal, Nugent-Hopkins, Callahan, Dubinsky, Hossa, Huberdeau, Abdelkader, Bjugstad (IR)
D: Karlsson, Hedman, Muzzin, Savard, Streit (IR)
G: Lundqvist, Quick, Condon
Garbage rule, so glad Olympics are done with and I don't have to worry about them for a very long time...at least four years, if not eight years.