Whoops! Roenick Makes a Boo-Boo

San Jose Sharks' center Jeremy Roenick made an appearance on ESPN Radio 1100 in Las Vegas recently and when steroids in baseball came up, Roenick was of course asked to comment on its prevalence in hockey.

As you've noticed, I pretty much never write about something that doesn't in some way, shape or form involve the Panthers.

And that will continue.

I'm copying the quote directly from Puck Daddy at Yahoo Sports, so here's what Jeremy had to say:

"[Hockey has] never had a problem. Our League is squeaky clean. We had one guy that tested positive that was Bryan McCabe, but he was taking a steroid because he was blind in one eye, and the doctors were giving him some kind of aid to help him see a little bit out of his eye. And the other guy was the goaltender who put Propecia in his hair ... so he'd look better for the ladies."

Bryan McCabe? D'oh! Bryan Berard is the player that Roenick meant, not Panthers' defenseman Bryan McCabe - and Berard was banned for two years by the IIHF for his failed test.

Incidentally, Roenick forgot about former Panthers' defenseman Sean Hill. Hill, of course, was the first NHLer to be suspended under a then-new-league testing program back in 2007. At the time, Hill was playing for the New York Islanders and at the time, the Islanders were mere hours from an elimination game. They went on to lose the game and their season ended.