Brad Mills, Former Forward for Oil Barons, Receives AHL Suspension
Brad Mills, the hockey player who previously played in the position of forward for the Fort MacMurray Oil Barons has received a 20 game suspension suspension from the AHL due to violating certain terms of the AHL/PHPA Performance Enhancing Substances Program. Brad Mills is a favorite with hockey fans around Canada and the USA, and he has played on other teams as well as being a forward for the Fort MacMurray Oil Barons in the past. Mills started out showing incredible promise, initially playing with the NHL Ottawa Senators farm team the Binghamton Senators. During the 2002-03 season with the Alberta Junior Hockey League Brad Mills scored 67 points and made 20 goals, showing that he has the skills needed to be a professional hockey player in any league.
The AHL suspension for former Fort MacMurray Oil Barons player Brad Mills has already started. After Mills played with the Senators he made his debut in the NHL in 2010-2011, playing for the New Jersey Devils. This was after Brad Mills spent four seasons as a player with the Yale Bulldogs. In his career so far of 34 NHL games the former Fort MacMurray Oil Barons forward has only scored two points and made one goal, but he has accumulated 37 penalty minutes during the same period. Both the AHL and the NHL agreed on details in August for a drug testing and education program that was to be implemented beginning in the 2014-2015 season. Brad Mills will be eligible to play again in the match on December 12, which is when the Senators face off against the Lehigh Valley Phantoms.