Inside the High-Stakes Comeback: Carter Hart and Hockey Canada Defendants’ Untold Journey to the NHL
In June, Bettman said at his state of the league address before Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final that he would let the judicial process play out but “what has been alleged is abhorrent, disgusting and shouldn’t be tolerated.”
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Bettman used his latitude to levy a one-year suspension against former Los Angeles Kings defenseman Slava Voynov in April of 2019 — more than five years after Voynov had pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of corporal injury to a spouse following his October 2014 arrest for attacking his wife, Marta Varlamova. The one-year suspension from Bettman also came after the player’s conviction had been dismissed by a Los Angeles judge in 2018.
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