{"id":142167,"date":"2025-09-14T00:12:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T00:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/142167\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T00:12:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T00:12:04","slug":"carter-hart-expected-to-receive-interest-from-multiple-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/142167\/","title":{"rendered":"Carter Hart Expected To Receive Interest From Multiple Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, the NHL announced that the five Hockey Canada players who were found not guilty of sexual assault earlier this summer would be suspended to December 1st but would be eligible to sign an NHL contract as of October 15th.\u00a0 It appears that goaltender Carter Hart<\/a> will get an opportunity to continue his career; Chris Johnston reports in his latest piece for The Athletic (subscription link<\/a>) that Hart is expected to receive interest from multiple teams and should have a handshake deal in place by the start of next month.<\/p>\n

Hart last played near the midway point of the 2023-24 season before taking a leave from the team when charges were about to be laid.\u00a0 Then, when his contract expired, the Flyers didn\u2019t issue a qualifying offer, making him an unrestricted free agent.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old has played in 227 career NHL contests, all with the Flyers who drafted him in the second round back in 2016.\u00a0 Hart started off quite strong with Philadelphia before his performance started to dip, coinciding with their struggles in the standings.\u00a0 Overall, he has a 2.94 GAA along with a .906 SV% and six shutouts over his six-season career.<\/p>\n

While there has been some speculation that the Flyers could look to bring him back, Johnston suggests that\u2019s unlikely to be the case as Hart is believed to be looking for a fresh start.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Philadelphia already has Samuel Ersson<\/a> and newcomer Daniel Vladar<\/a> in the fold while prospect Aleksei Kolosov<\/a> will also be in camp with the team, as will Ivan Fedotov<\/a> who looks like a waiver candidate as things stand.<\/p>\n

Johnston added that Hart is almost certainly going to sign with a U.S.-based team which would take the long-speculated possibility of the netminder signing with his hometown team in Edmonton.\u00a0 There were no teams specified as likely landing spots but his priorities are finding a team with a chance to win but also provides him a chance at meaningful playing time.<\/p>\n

Despite the long layoff, Johnston expects that Hart will get a multi-year contract from whoever he signs with.\u00a0 That said, it would be surprising if he received more than the $3.979MM he was making with the Flyers on his last contract so it might be in Hart\u2019s best interest to look for a shorter-term pact if he is able to be an impact performer with his next team.<\/p>\n

Even if an agreement is reached by the start of next month, he\u2019ll have to wait a couple of weeks to officially sign it.\u00a0 From there, Hart would be able to practice with the team for a month to work on conditioning before being granted a conditioning stint in mid-November where he will see his first taste of AHL action since 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this week, the NHL announced that the five Hockey Canada players who were found not guilty of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2367,17788,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-142167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-2025-free-agency","9":"tag-carter-hart","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}