contract with Vegas<\/a> in October.<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019ve just been practicing for a year and a half, so it was nice to get into a real game,\u201d Hart said. \u201cYou get different scenarios that you can\u2019t replicate in practice \u2026 broken plays, screens, tips, layered traffic, things like that. The first game, I was a little nervous. The second game was good. The third game, there were some weird bounces. It was kind of a weird game, but it just felt good to be playing again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hart played in 227 games over six seasons with the Flyers, going 96-93-29 with a .906 save percentage and -11.92 goals saved above expected.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, there will be nerves,\u201d Hart said of his eventual return. \u201cI get nerves before every game, but that\u2019s just because I care so much. At the end of the day, those nerves turn into excitement. It\u2019s a game I\u2019ve played my whole life. I\u2019ve played a lot of hockey in the NHL. I\u2019ve been here before. I haven\u2019t played in a while, but it\u2019s going to feel good to get back out there, just get back playing again and get things rolling here in Vegas.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Golden Knights need reinforcements in the crease. They\u2019ve been without starting goalie Adin Hill since he exited the Oct. 20 game against Calgary with a lower-body injury. In his absence, Akira Schmid and rookie Carl Lindbom have shared the net. During that span, Vegas has gone 6-6-6 with a team save percentage of .876 (eighth worst in the NHL).<\/p>\n
Vegas reassigned Lindbom to the AHL on Sunday, setting up a rotation between Schmid and Hart until Hill returns from injury.<\/p>\n
\u201cAkira has played well too, so we have to be mindful that he has to stay sharp,\u201d Cassidy said. \u201cI\u2019m sure you\u2019ll see a lot of both goalies, but Carter has waited a long time to play, so he\u2019s definitely going to get his share of starts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Following Tuesday\u2019s home game against Chicago, the Golden Knights go on a five-game road trip to New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia and Columbus.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to have to be patient, no matter what the result is,\u201d Cassidy said. \u201cWe don\u2019t know what that will be. We\u2019re all hoping he\u2019ll go out there and be terrific his first game, but missing that much time, I\u2019m going to expect rust. In order to shake off the rust, you have to play, so he\u2019s going to get his fair share of starts, and hopefully he gets a little more comfortable every time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Goalie Carter Hart, recalled by the Vegas Golden Knights on Sunday, is eligible to make his NHL return…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85,7529],"class_list":["post-321569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-vegas-golden-knights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}