TORONTO (AP) -Maple Leafs forward Mark Bell was suspended indefinitely without pay after last month’s plea of no contest to drunken-driving and hit-and-run charges.
He will serve six months in a California jail at the end of next season. The 27-year-old player will need approval from the NHL and the NHL players’ union to be reinstated after consultation with program doctors.
Toronto opens training camp Sept. 13. Program doctors will determine the training camp activities in which he may participate.
Bell was arrested in September 2006 after his sedan rear-ended a pickup truck in Milpitas, Calif., in the San Jose foothills.
The Maple Leafs acquired Bell in June along with goaltender Vesa Toskala in a trade with the San Jose Sharks.
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