Carter Hart

Last Season

Eighteen appearances, 11-3-3, a 2.71 goals-against average and a .8910 save percentage, no shutouts.

His career figure across 245 games is .9048, with 107 wins.

Over his last ten appearances, .882 on 195 shots.

The Physical Game

Six foot two, 196, and technically the most refined goaltender in this crease — the depth management is excellent, he is quiet in the net, and he tracks a puck through traffic better than either man beside him.

He was regarded as the best goaltending prospect in the world at nineteen and the technique is why.

The Mental Game

He did not play for two full seasons before this one. Eighteen appearances and eleven wins is a reasonable return from a man who had been out of the game that long, and there is no useful projection to make from it.

The Intangibles

A .8910 is well under his own career figure and it was the best of any Vegas goaltender last season, which says more about the crease than about him.

Vegas allowed the fifth-fewest expected goals in the league and conceded twenty-two more actual goals than those chances warranted — the second-worst goaltending result in the league.

Eleven wins in eighteen appearances is the only positive line in this section.

He is 28. On the evidence of a career .9048 and a very good technical base, he is the most likely of the three to give this club the goaltending its skaters have been earning.