Valentin Zykov suspended 20 games for PEDs

[Legionnaire11]

He started taking the substance when in Carolina or LA, and kept on taking it since.

He could admit to taking a substance, while also truthfully not knowing it was illegal. Idk what the truth is here, but this tweet comes of as totally damning without having all of the facts.

 

[IceNeophyte]

It explains how he made the team out of camp. He was better than he was for sure. It's very reminiscent of baseball where these guys on their last leg who are trying to get in the door get caught.

He told McPhee yesterday he's been using this for 4 years. Apparently he didn't know it was banned.

 

[HanSolo]

and the mystery of the overachieving roster is solved

Lol, okay.

Zykov is a guy who was struggling to make the Vegas roster and then came to camp all of a sudden much faster and stronger on the puck. He's the one guy with an abnormal performance spike.

A friend texted me "another Knights player got busted for PED" and I thought oh God who is it? Then I saw it was Zykov and it made total sense.

 

[Vegas07]

That's 2 Vegas guys within a year isn't it?

I thought the league was trying to help us win.

 

[HanSolo]

Tbh I'm not that upset. Zykov did look a lot better but I think a big body moving quickly and being active on the forecheck made him look better than he was.

The puck died on his stick quite often tbh.

Brandon Pirri's legacy lives on I guess.

 

[BigEezyE22]

IMO he didn't take enough...I have no clue who the hell he is.

 

[ijuka]

Unfortunate that he's the scapegoat. As I sure hope we all know, everyone in NHL uses PEDs. They just keep this farce up so people would think they're doing something to tackle it.

 

[M88K]

Lol, okay.

Zykov is a guy who was struggling to make the Vegas roster and then came to camp all of a sudden much faster and stronger on the puck. He's the one guy with an abnormal performance spike.

A friend texted me "another Knights player got busted for PED" and I thought oh God who is it? Then I saw it was Zykov and it made total sense.

if you take it seriously it just ruins the joke

 

[Kale Hulls]

What happens in Vegas stays in your bloodstream..

 

[jetsforever]

I'm sure he'll be a big loss

 

[HanSolo]

if you take it seriously it just ruins the joke

Problem with the joke is there's no doubt there's at least some people who unironically believe it to be truth.

 

[Hivemind]

First Schmidt now Zykov. The Golden Knights need to get with the program and learn how to hide their PEDs like the rest of the NHL does.

 

[TNT87]

Should have done coke instead.

 

[tny760]

He started taking the substance when in Carolina or LA, and kept on taking it since.

Edit: McPhee used the word "supplements" instead of "substance".

hahahah yeeeeah right

weird the overachieving team of the century has 2 players popped for PEDs in such quick succession, both with horrible played out excuses

this is systemic to the org and denying at this point is putting the blinders on

inb4 "grain of salt in a swimming pool" BS excuse, as if PEDs don't get metabolized the same as everything else you put into your body

 

[kingsholygrail]

Who is the next Golden Knight to get caught?

 

[theslatcher]

Who is the next Golden Knight to get caught?

Nicolas Roy.

 

[Megustaelhockey]

What's the substance?

Cheez whiz.

 

[Kale Hulls]

Who is the next Golden Knight to get caught?

But just for the same number of games Kuznetsov got..

 

[Whiston532]

Maybe the PEDs did their job and he’s just naturally really bad.

 

[Marv Merchants]

"He didn't know what he put in his body"

 

[SotasicA]

LOL

Zykov states he's unaware of how it happened.

McPhee: "oh, he told me he knowingly took them".

GMGM threw him under the bus. Obviously what Zykov did was wrong, but I thought player to GM conversations are confidential. And players are encouraged to immediately contact their GM if anything occurs and lay out the facts. So much for that.

 

[KMart27]

Poor guy was overwhelmed by actually being in the lineup. Needed a break.

 

[SotasicA]

Should have done coke instead.

A good general rule in life.

 

[Khelandros]

“We learned this yesterday, it seems that the last. Zykov took supplements that were not from us. Zykov said that taking it for four years,” said McPhee.

 

[tny760]

LOL

Zykov states he's unaware of how it happened.

McPhee: "oh, he told me he knowingly took them".

GMGM threw him under the bus. Obviously what Zykov did was wrong, but I thought player to GM conversations are confidential. And players are encouraged to immediately contact their GM if anything occurs and lay out the facts. So much for that.

schmidt threw the trainers under the bus when he got popped, "i only took supplements provided to me by the team" or something along those lines

funny how the blame game goes around when you get caught, all eyes should firmly be on the trainers now. bet the extra fridge in the locker room disappeared overnight