The book is closed on Carter Hart in Philadelphia.

The goaltender will be eligible to sign an NHL contract on Oct. 15, and play in games again on Dec. 1, but if and when, Flyers general manager Danny Brière said Tuesday that it won't be with his team.

"So the only comment I'll make on that is that his representative, Judd Moldaver, has reached out and kind of told us that in light of everything that happened in the last year and a half with Carter, they felt, and Carter felt, that it was better for them to look for a fresh start," Brière told the local media during a pre-training camp press conference at the Flyers Training Center in Voorhees. "So that's where it's at, and it's the only comment I'm gonna make on it."

Hart, 27, was charged with one count of sexual assault in t

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