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Minnesota State goaltender and Hobey Baker Award winner Dryden McKay has been given a six-month ban for an anti-doping violation after leading the Mavericks to the Frozen Four national championship game.
The suspension was announced Monday by the United States Anti-Doping Agency.
McKay was tested by the agency as an alternate for Team USA's Olympic hockey roster. On. Jan. 23, the 24-year-old tested positive for ostarine, which is a prohibited substance that's in the class of anabolic agents.
Minnesota State said in a statement that McKay learned of the positive result on Jan. 31 and received a mandatory provisional suspension on Feb. 3. It was lifted by an arbitrator the same day following a hearing, the school said.
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Dryden McKay #29 of the Minnesota State Mavericks wins the 2022 Hobey Baker Memorial Award during a ceremony at the Encore Boston Harbor Resort on April 8, 2022 in Everett, MA. (Richard T Gagnon/Getty Images)
The school said it confirmed with the NCAA that McKay was eligible to play. His season ended April 9, when he and the Mavericks lost 5-1 to the University of Denver in the men's Division I title game.
McKay said in a social media post that he had taken an vitamin D3 immune booster to help protect him from COVID-19, He said he had all of his supplements shipped to a lab after being notified of the positive test, and that the ostarine was in the D3 supplement.
USADA also said that a supplement he'd taken was contaminated with ostarine, according to results from a World Anti-Doping Agency-accredited lab. It was at a level consistent "with the circumstances of ingestion and
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