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NHL plays waiting game on Slava Voynov reinstatement

LAS VEGAS -- The potential return of Slava Voynov is one of the hottest of hot-button issues facing the National Hockey League.

Voynov, 28, was a standout defenseman for the Los Angeles Kings when he was arrested in Oct. 2014 on misdemeanor domestic violence charges after a bloody incident involving his wife, Marta Varlamova. Voynov was suspended indefinitely by the NHL. He pled no contest to a misdemeanor charge of corporal injury to a spouse and spent nearly two months in jail. Rather than spend an undefined amount of time in the custody of U.