Carter Hart blocked from entering US while trying to move

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TJ Tucker
September 10, 2024 (4:17 PM)

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Carter Hart while playing with the Philadelphia Flyers

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Carter Hart, one of five players charged in an alleged incident that happened in 2018, is trying to the move to the US but is being blocked because of it

While deciding on pre-trial motions in the case of five former members of Team Canada's World Juniors team charged with assault, some interesting details were revealed about one of them. Carter Hart, formerly of the Philadelphia Flyers, wants to move to the United States, but is having difficulty doing so.

According to report, Carter Hart is trying to move to Nashville, Tennessee, but is being blocked because of his criminal charge.

"Mr. Hart, a former Philadelphia Flyer, says he intends to move from his home province of Alberta to Tennessee to work out full-time with a fellow former professional hockey player.

'If I am required to attend the pretrial motions, whether in person or remotely, it would be impossible for me to maintain my daily training regimen,' he writes. His affidavit says he has hired an immigration lawyer. 'I have been previously denied entry to the United States due to my criminal charge.'

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The report from the Globe and Mail does not say who the former player is that Hart is planning to work out with. Hart, along with Dillon Dube, Michael MacLeod, Cal Foote and Alex Formenton, have been charged with assault after attending a celebration in 2018 after winning the gold medal with Canada's World Juniors team. All five have been granted the ability to not be present during the pretrial, which will decide what evidence can and can't be presented to a jury when the trial starts in September of 2025.

Formenton has left hockey altogether, taking a job in the construction industry. MacLeod and Dube are currently playing in the KHL. Foote has remained in the US and told the judge he has a stringent training regimen he has to maintain in order to be ready to play hockey again, leaving him unable to attend the pre-trial part of the case.

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