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Carter Hart

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Carter Hart

Vegas Golden Knights Goaltender #79

245 games, a career .9048, and 18 appearances back.

SeasonTeamGPWLOTLGAGAASOSASV%
2018-19PHI3116131812.830976.917
2019-20PHI4324133952.4211100.914
2020-21PHI279115893.671721.877
2021-22PHI45132471373.1611441.905
2022-23PHI552223101552.9421665.907
2023-24PHI261293682.801727.906
2025-26VGK181133462.710422.891
2026-27 so far——————————
Career—24510796326712.9267052.905

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.

Last Season

18 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 10 appearances, .882 on 195 shots.

The Physical Game

6-2, 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 19 and the technique is why.

The Mental Game

He did not play for 2 full seasons before this one. 18 appearances and 11 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 22 more actual goals than those chances warranted — the second-worst goaltending result in the league.

11 wins in 18 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 3 to give this club the goaltending its skaters have been earning.

The numbers underneath

Recent form

Last 18 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

.915

save percentage over his last 8, on 164 shots · .882 across these 18

Each bar is one appearance, taller being a better save percentage. Filled bars are .920 or better.