{"id":685312,"date":"2026-06-05T05:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T05:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/685312\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T05:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T05:19:13","slug":"no-means-no-chanted-at-carter-hart-during-stanley-cup-final-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/685312\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No means no\u2019 chanted at Carter Hart during Stanley Cup Final Game 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RALEIGH, N.C. \u2014 For a second consecutive game in the Stanley Cup Final, fans at Lenovo Center directed chants \u201cno means no\u201d at Vegas Golden Knights goaltender Carter Hart.<\/p>\n<p>The chants were first heard about seven minutes into the first period of Game 2 between Vegas and the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday night. The puck was in Carolina\u2019s zone, far from Hart\u2019s crease, and fans chanted loudly enough to be heard on the Sportsnet broadcast. In Game 1, fans did the same several times when Hart played the puck.<\/p>\n<p>Hart was one of five players on Canada\u2019s 2018 World Juniors hockey team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6510753\/2025\/07\/24\/hockey-canada-trial-verdict-acquittal-all-charges\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to be acquitted<\/a> on charges of sexual assault by the Ontario Superior Court on July 24, 2025. All five players were suspended by the NHL for what the league called \u201cdeeply troubling and unacceptable\u201d behavior, regardless of the verdict, in a statement released after their reinstatement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn relying on both our own investigation, and the conclusions reached by (Justice Maria Carroccia) in her opinion, and the players\u2019 acquittal, the League has determined that the conduct at issue falls woefully short of the standards and values that the League and its Member Clubs expect and demand,\u201d the NHL statement read.<\/p>\n<p>Hart, Michael McLeod, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dub\u00e9 and Cal Foote had been charged with sexual assault in connection to an alleged incident in June 2018 in which a woman known publicly as E.M. \u2014 her identity is protected by a publication ban \u2014 said she was sexually assaulted over the span of several hours in a London, Ontario, hotel room.<\/p>\n<p>The players were initially charged and ruled ineligible by the NHL in January 2024. Hart, then the starting goaltender for the Philadelphia Flyers, was the most established player among the group, but the Flyers did not tender him a qualifying offer in the summer of 2024, allowing him to become a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>After splitting time with other Vegas goaltenders and dealing with an injury in the regular season, the 27-year-old Hart has started all 18 of the Golden Knights\u2019 playoff games and won 13 of them. Hart started Game 2 with a .923 save percentage and is in the running to win the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP. He stopped 25 of 29 shots in Vegas\u2019 5-4 Game 1 win.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, as part of the NHL\u2019s pre-Stanley Cup Final media day, Hart was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7325683\/2026\/06\/02\/carter-hart-hockey-canada-trial-stanley-cup-final\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">asked by The Athletic<\/a> what he meant in October, when he mentioned learning and growth since the verdict, and whether that had continued in the ensuing months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve learned a lot,\u201d Hart said. \u201cI\u2019ve grown a lot since then. And I\u2019ve been able to meet a lot of good people in the community, and I think the Vegas Golden Knights Foundation has done a really good job of making it easy for me to integrate into the community and meet a lot of cool people and \u2014 just really fortunate to be here in Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it\u2019s a great culture of people, and like I said, I met a lot of cool people, and I\u2019m just very fortunate to be here in Las Vegas and with this group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A member of the Golden Knights\u2019 communications team ended Hart\u2019s availability immediately after that answer, cutting off a follow-up attempt. He\u2019d spoken for approximately six minutes of what was scheduled to be a 15-minute block.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RALEIGH, N.C. \u2014 For a second consecutive game in the Stanley Cup Final, fans at Lenovo Center directed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[4821,385,99,1793],"class_list":["post-685312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-vegas-golden-knights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}