Lawyer: “there was no crime here,” per report; notes

Good morning from the Toyota Sports Center, where the Kings are practicing in advance of Thursday’s game against the Buffalo Sabres. Per the color coded jerseys at today’s practice, it is possible that we could see some adjusted lines during tomorrow’s game. More on those lines below.

First, Slava Voynov’s lawyer, Craig Renetzky, spoke with Ken Campbell of The Hockey News and said “it’s clear to me there was no crime here,” per a report this morning.

Via THN:

Craig Renetzky, a criminal lawyer who is representing Voynov in the matter, said the language barrier, both on the part of Voynov and the alleged victim, has created a misunderstanding and that the victim’s injuries that caused her to be hospitalized were the result of an accident. Voynov was arrested early Monday morning at a Los Angeles area hospital after staff at the hospital notified police of a possible domestic abuse case. Voynov was immediately suspended indefinitely by the NHL, but has yet to be charged with anything pending a police investigation.

“Hopefully, the police will get that,” Renetzky said. “And we’re hoping the NHL looks at the new evidence and will lift the suspension. What the police will find out when they talk to her is that the action was not related to Mr. Voynov. I can’t go into complete details, but Mr. Voynov never hit the woman. This is really just a pure accident and we’re going to provide them with some additional evidence we hope they’ll present to the District Attorney’s office. And if they do, based on my experience, they don’t have a case.

There’s more information in the article above; it’s obviously worth a read as an account of the incident as told by Voynov’s lawyer.

From Toyota Sports Center this morning, today’s lines:

King – Kopitar – Brown
Pearson – Carter – Toffoli
Andreoff – Stoll – Williams
Clifford – Richards – Nolan

-Jake Muzzin is skating with Drew Doughty, and Trevor Lewis took the ice prior to today’s practice. Marian Gaborik is not on the ice. From the discussions I’ve had with the team, there is guarded optimism that Muzzin will be able to be cleared to make his season debut tomorrow night against Buffalo after having suffered an upper-body injury three weeks prior in the second-to-last preseason game.

-As for the other defensive pairings, Alec Martinez has been skating to the right of Robyn Regehr – Martinez received significant time on the right side last season, often with Willie Mitchell – and Brayden McNabb has skated with Matt Greene.