{"id":537924,"date":"2026-04-03T05:04:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/537924\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T05:04:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:04:53","slug":"golden-knights-activate-carter-hart-off-injured-reserve-and-start-him-versus-flames-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/537924\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Knights activate Carter Hart off injured reserve and start him versus Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Golden Knights goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/carter-hart\/8479394\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/carter-hart\/8479394\" target=\"_blank\">Carter Hart<\/a> was activated off injured reserve and started Vegas\u2019 game Thursday night against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/calgary-flames\/20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/calgary-flames\/20\" target=\"_blank\">Calgary Flames<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hart has been out since injuring his left leg Jan. 8 against Columbus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">John Tortorella, in his second game since replacing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/bruce-cassidy\/8446018\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/bruce-cassidy\/8446018\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Cassidy<\/a>, coached Hart in Philadelphia in from 2022-24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cCarter and I have a really good relationship,\u201d Tortorella said. \u201cHe\u2019s becoming a really good pro. I love the kid. We\u2019ve had a lot of conversations. I think he\u2019s handled himself so well through some pretty hard times the past couple of years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI think he\u2019s a good kid. People have made judgments on him. People are still making judgments on him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Vegas signed Hart in October and he made his first appearance Dec. 2 in a 4-3 victory over Chicago. It was his first NHL appearance in nearly two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hart was one of five 2018 Canada world junior hockey players acquitted of sexual assault in July. He was the first of those five agree to an NHL contract. The league ruled those players were eligible to sign deals beginning Oct. 15 and to play starting Dec. 1. Hart signed a two-year, $4 million contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With Hart back in the lineup, the Golden Knights have three goalies. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/adin-hill\/8478499\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/adin-hill\/8478499\" target=\"_blank\">Adin Hill<\/a> has been operating as the starter, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/akira-schmid\/8481033\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/akira-schmid\/8481033\" target=\"_blank\">Akira Schmid<\/a> also is on the roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI have no plan on how to attack it,\u201d Tortorella said. \u201cI have a plan on who the goalie\u2019s going to be the next game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NHL: https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mark Anderson, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Golden Knights goalie Carter Hart was activated off injured reserve and started Vegas\u2019 game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5129],"tags":[149,5317,5,4,43,74,39,5316],"class_list":{"0":"post-537924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vegas-golden-knights","8":"tag-golden-knights","9":"tag-goldenknights","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-vegas","14":"tag-vegas-golden-knights","15":"tag-vegasgoldenknights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116339036844504258","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537924","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=537924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}