The sport doesn't have a drug problem, at least within the parameters of modern definition. For many, that's one of the NHL's selling points. The NHL doesn't need to sweep it under the rug, but instead should have implemented testing long ago to emphasize that it has so little to hide. Granted, maybe that's naïve. At some point, many of us also believed that Milli Vanilli really sang, that "A Million Little Pieces" indeed deserved to be displayed in the nonfiction section of the bookstore, and maybe even that illegal sticks were extremely exceptional, not commonplace. But it's our story and we're sticking to it.