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Questions about Mike Richards and Prescription Drugs in the NHL

It has been two weeks since Dean Lombardi terminated the contract of veteran center Mike Richards, and we still know very little about what happened. There has been an almost eerie silence enveloping the situation that doesn't seem to befit any of the parties involved. Those parties range from the talkative Dean Lombardi to the Kings as an organization to the Players' Association to Mike Richards and everyone that represents him. No one is talking.

All we know so far is this: Mike Richards had an incident at the Canada/USA border in which the prescription painkiller oxycodone was involved.