{"id":537425,"date":"2026-04-02T23:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/537425\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T23:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:00:20","slug":"golden-knights-to-activate-carter-hart-from-ltir-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/537425\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Knights To Activate Carter Hart From LTIR \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Vegas Golden Knights are expected to activate goaltender Carter Hart<\/a> off of long-term injured reserve, and award him the start in Thursday night\u2019s game against the Calgary Flames, per Danny Webster of the Las Vegas Review Journal<\/a>. Hart has sat out of the last 33 games due to an extended lower-body injury sustained on January 8th<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hart signed a two-year contract with Vegas in October and returned to NHL ice in early-December. He went on to appear in 12 games with the Golden Knights over the next month, posting six wins and a .871 save percentage in the process. Vegas deployed Hart as their starting goaltender through that month, defaulting Akira Schmid<\/a> to the backup role while Adin Hill<\/a> worked his way back from a multi-month leg injury. Hill returned to the lineup one week after Hart\u2019s injury.<\/p>\n

Vegas has turned towards Hill and Schmid to fill their goaltending room in the near-three months since Hart went down. Hill has carried the bulk of the weight, recording nine wins, one shutout, and a .865 save percentage in 21 games since returning to the lineup. Schmid has recorded four wins and a .889 save percentage in 12 games. Carl Lindbom<\/a> also stepped into one game \u2013 an 18-save win \u2013 after Hart\u2019s injury.<\/p>\n

With Hart\u2019s return, freshly-cristened Vegas head coach John Tortorella will now have to juggle three goalies at the NHL level. He could have some favor for Hart, who he coached on the Philadelphia Flyers in the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons. Those campaigns stand as some of Hart\u2019s best. He tallied 22 wins and a .907 save percentage in 55 games of 2022-23, and 12 wins and a .906 save percentage in 26 games of 2023-24. His only season with more wins and a higher save percentage came in his breakout 2019-20 season, when Hart tallied 24 wins and a .914 save percentage in 43 games.<\/p>\n

A familiar face behind the bench could help Hart turn a disastrous season \u2013 marked by court cases, a slow return, and injury \u2013 into a positive swing when Vegas needs it most. The Golden Knights ranked in the middle of the league \u2013 17th, to be exact \u2013 in goals-against per-game over the month of March. That is despite the team also facing the second-fewest shots-against in the same span. Those struggles led to the firing of Stanley Cup-winning head coach Bruce Cassidy<\/a> and a turn towards the experienced Tortorella. Now, Vegas will test if they hve found the goaltending needed to hang onto their third-place spot in the Pacific Division, through a trio of Hart, Hill, and Schmid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vegas Golden Knights are expected to activate goaltender Carter Hart off of long-term injured reserve, and award…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5129],"tags":[88,149,5317,5,402,30,4,405,74,39,5316],"class_list":{"0":"post-537425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vegas-golden-knights","8":"tag-carter-hart","9":"tag-golden-knights","10":"tag-goldenknights","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-injury","13":"tag-newsstand","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-transactions","16":"tag-vegas","17":"tag-vegas-golden-knights","18":"tag-vegasgoldenknights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116337601973801022","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}