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Three years ago, Nashville's Rich Clune's boozing and drug use pushed him to rock bottom, Scott Burnside writes. Which makes his recovery all the more remarkable.

Derek Sanderson recalls mixing cocktails in a salad spinner and consuming four bottles of Soave Bolla wine before noon "just to get square."

NHL and players' association representatives met for four hours Thursday but there was no major breakthrough in negotiations to end the league's lockout.

Lou Lamoriello doesn't sound awfully enamored with the NHL's realignment plan for next season, although he stopped short of saying he was one of the four "No" votes when the Board of Governors passed it in Pebble Beach. Clearly the new schedule ma...

The brother of NHL enforcer Derek Boogaard made his first court appearance Monday on charges stemming from his brother's overdose death in May.

NHL enforcer Derek Boogaard had been out of drug rehab for just one day before his younger brother gave him an unprescribed narcotic pain pill at the start of an evening of night-clubbing, drug-taking and heavy drinking that resulted in his death, prosecu

The brother of former Minnesota Wild and New York Rangers player Derek Boogaard, who died from a drug overdose in May, has been arrested on suspicion of possessing illegal prescription pills on the same night.

A former NHL player charged with violating probation on a drug-related conviction has turned himself in to authorities in northern New York.

Almost 150 people required hospital treatment overnight as rioters swept through downtown Vancouver following a Canucks loss to the Boston Bruins in the decisive Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final.

A Virginia chiropractor who treated members of the Washington Capitals hockey team has pleaded guilty to steroids charges in a Florida court.

Washington Capitals players say their visits to a chiropractor arrested on steroids-related charges were nothing more than routine treatments.

Theo Fleury admits he was sexually abused by junior coach (and convicted sex offender) Graham James while he was a junior player, and attributes that to driving him to alcohol and drugs during his NHL career.

It is rare for a pro sports league to have the chance to get out in front of scandal. But that's exactly where the NHL and its players are in terms of their drug-testing policy.

Perhaps taking a cue from Major League Baseball, the NHL is investigating whether a Florida man arrested last week for importing and possessing steroids provided the drugs to any of its players.

The Montreal Canadiens made it clear that they are troubled about allegations that three of their players have been socializing with a man recently arrested on drug charges.

Alexei Cherepanov, who died after losing consciousness during a Russian Superleague game two months ago, had been taking banned substances, government investigators said on Monday.