Akira Schmid will start in net for the Golden Knights when they face the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday at Xfinity Mobile Arena.

That means goaltender Carter Hart will not face his former team in his return to Philadelphia.

Hart has started three of the past four games and the past two — a 3-2 overtime win against the New York Rangers on Sunday and a 5-4 shootout loss to the New York Islanders on Tuesday.

This will be Schmid’s first start since posting a 24-save shutout Friday against the New Jersey Devils .

“Carter wants to play every game,” coach Bruce Cassidy said. “He’s a very competitive guy. We discussed coming out of the Ranger game he wanted to get right back in the net. That led to the decision on Long Island. We discussed it with him, but that was more us making the decision

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