This is one of the most shocking returns in recent hockey history. This is the news that no one expected to hear this season. Carter Hart is back. His reinstatement and sudden return to the NHL have set off a wave of reaction across the league.
Carter Hart is 27 years old. On October 16, 2025, he signed a professional tryout deal with the Vegas Golden Knights. The news came only weeks after a court found him not guilty in a 2018 case involving the Canadian World Junior team. According to Reuters, Hart is the first of five players from that case to rejoin the NHL after the trial ended.
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Actually everyone did expect this. It was just a matter of where.
Wish him the best, I like the Knights I'm positive he well be great there. Toronto needs a refresh that requires more than just Mitch to find a new home. Happy Jack got the hell out of Cheapo Buffalo where he finally can show the world, his real talent, and that he is doing. Good luck guys.
He was found not guilty. Why should he be held accountable for something he was not criminally liable for?
What's the point of judicial process if you're gonna be persecuted by media either way?? Kinda fucked up. Innocent until proven guilty ???
Man fuck these athletes. I'll not spend one red cent supporting them. I'm not even a leafs fan and I think Marnier is a little twat. You get paid millions of dollars. I don't find my job "enjoaby" in the slightest and I don't whine about it. Athletes are the worst man I swear
this came streight outta left feild
Folks he faced a trail within our justice system that has destroyed his life and at the end of this, the judge felt very strongly that he / they were not guilty and yet some folks feel that this was not good enough which is absolutely insanity. I like the vast majority support this move by the Knights 110%. If you are in the small minority and do not support this, then that's your right but that does not make you right just because you disagree with this.
innocent man redditors seething
The pig who accused them all LIED!
SHE should be arrested.
i did he was to good to not be signed he didnt do shit