Confirmed with Link: Carter Hart Officially Charged With One Count Of Sexual Assault (Per His Lawyers); Non-roster, salary cap info in OP

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For the first time ever the Flyers have a good goalie tandem and now possibly this…but it is just a sport after all and if Hart is guilty I hope he never plays for the Flyers again. The timing of everything doesn’t look good. Would the Flyers end his contact if it isn’t good?
 
For the first time ever the Flyers have a good goalie tandem and now possibly this…but it is just a sport after all and if Hart is guilty I hope he never plays for the Flyers again. The timing of everything doesn’t look good. Would the Flyers end his contact if it isn’t good?

Even if he is one of the ones that turns himself in, it still needs to go to trial and he/they would need to be convicted. I would think they would just suspend him indefinitely pending the results of a trial. But who knows?
 
For the first time ever the Flyers have a good goalie tandem and now possibly this…but it is just a sport after all and if Hart is guilty I hope he never plays for the Flyers again. The timing of everything doesn’t look good. Would the Flyers end his contact if it isn’t good?
Hart will be terminated, come back in a few years for a Flyers rival when we actually good and win the cup. The script is written.
 
On the practical side of this, aside from any morality, I think we are all thinking that this is going to seriously mess up a potential Hart trade. Just a couple of thoughts on that.

We don't know that the Flyers were going to be willing to move him before signing him to a new contract - this situation, whatever it is, means they almost surely will. That is a positive from a team-building standpoint, as the numbers in that hypothetical new contract wouldn't suit our timeline at all IMO.

We don't know what kind of value we could extract in a trade of Hart. Any value back in a trade is better than nothing - with the exception of the Giroux trade, where we received an abomination in addition to a first - so it sucks that his value is likely to tank if not disappear altogether. But we have plenty to deal and get back draft capital. So it's not great, but it's also not necessarily crippling.

Not trying to bury the lede on this story - just thinking about other sides of it.
 
Even if he is one of the ones that turns himself in, it still needs to go to trial and he/they would need to be convicted. I would think they would just suspend him indefinitely pending the results of a trial. But who knows?
Terminating is contract without a guilty verdict would bring lawsuits in I imagine.
 
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On the practical side of this, aside from any morality, I think we are all thinking that this is going to seriously mess up a potential Hart trade. Just a couple of thoughts on that.

We don't know that the Flyers were going to be willing to move him before signing him to a new contract - this situation, whatever it is, means they almost surely will. That is a positive from a team-building standpoint, as the numbers in that hypothetical new contract wouldn't suit our timeline at all IMO.

We don't know what kind of value we could extract in a trade of Hart. Any value back in a trade is better than nothing - with the exception of the Giroux trade, where we received an abomination in addition to a first - so it sucks that his value is likely to tank if not disappear altogether. But we have plenty to deal and get back draft capital. So it's not great, but it's also not necessarily crippling.

Not trying to bury the lede on this story - just thinking about other sides of it.

I think this probably makes him untradeable unfortunately. If he is involved, the league will suspend him indefinitely and no one will want to touch him unless a trial clears his name.
 
For the first time ever the Flyers have a good goalie tandem and now possibly this…but it is just a sport after all and if Hart is guilty I hope he never plays for the Flyers again. The timing of everything doesn’t look good. Would the Flyers end his contact if it isn’t good?

If Voynov was suspended for years for domestic abuse, expect them to be banned for life if they are found guilty.
 
I think this probably makes him untradeable unfortunately. If he is involved, the league will suspend him indefinitely and no one will want to touch him unless a trial clears his name.
He was already untradeable for it, or else he likely would’ve been traded in the summer. It was enough that some people thought he actually had.
 
If Voynov was suspended for years for domestic abuse, expect them to be banned for life if they are found guilty.
One can hope. Obviously, the legal process must play out, but professional sports has a long, sordid history of looking the other way at heinous crimes as long as someone was talented. It would be a net positive to society if we normalized the idea of talent not being a "get out of consequences free" card.
 
For the first time ever the Flyers have a good goalie tandem and now possibly this…but it is just a sport after all and if Hart is guilty I hope he never plays for the Flyers again. The timing of everything doesn’t look good. Would the Flyers end his contact if it isn’t good?
His deal is over after this season.

Time to move on with Ersson, Petersen, and next season Kolosov.
 
Feels like Celebrity Jeopardy right now awaiting the names.

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For the first time ever the Flyers have a good goalie tandem and now possibly this…but it is just a sport after all and if Hart is guilty I hope he never plays for the Flyers again. The timing of everything doesn’t look good. Would the Flyers end his contact if it isn’t good?
Theyve had promising young players get cancer, retire early for a migraine disorder, get detained by an authoritarian regime, and one refuse to play here. Might aswell add this to the list.
 
One can hope. Obviously, the legal process must play out, but professional sports has a long, sordid history of looking the other way at heinous crimes as long as someone was talented. It would be a net positive to society if we normalized the idea of talent not being a "get out of consequences free" card.

Sad but true. If Hart is one of the five called, and is found guilty, that's that. Pay for the crime. I am fan neutral when it comes to offenses such as this. Even if cleared, however, he will still retain a scar in the eyes of the public, which happens almost across the board, unfortunately.

But, if he is indeed guilty - sayonara and good riddance.
 
One can hope. Obviously, the legal process must play out, but professional sports has a long, sordid history of looking the other way at heinous crimes as long as someone was talented. It would be a net positive to society if we normalized the idea of talent not being a "get out of consequences free" card.

This org has a history.

@BiggE The one thing I wanted least out of this dopey fandom was the Tibbetts debates again. They're going to happen.
 

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