Alex Auld made 20 saves to pick up his second straight win since Vancouver's No.1 goalie Dan Cloutier injured his knee on Sunday in Anaheim.
The president of the World Anti-Doping Agency said he suspects as many as a third of the National Hockey League's 700 players may take some form of performance-enhancing substances.
"I spoke with Gary [NHL commissioner Gary Bettman] and he said, `We don't have the problem in hockey,'" Dick Pound told the London Free Press on Thursday in an interview for a story to be published today. "I told him he does. You wouldn't be far wrong if you said a third."
Asked if he meant performing-enhancing drugs, the Montreal lawyer replied, "Yes."
NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly took exception to Pound's comments.
"I would respectfully suggest that Mr. Pound's comments have absolutely no basis in fact," Daly told the Canadian Press. "I find it troubling, to say the least, that he would find it necessary to comment on something he has absolutely no knowledge of.
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