No big intro here. Just gonna talk about Carter Hart (and associated topics) for a while, because sometimes the situation just calls for that.
1. Let’s preface all of this with a general reminder that shouldn’t be necessary, yet definitely is, for nearly all of us, myself included: 11 hockey games is not enough time to draw meaningful implications. Sure, we can talk about and evaluate what’s happened in that time — we’re going to do that here, in fact. But it also ... is not enough time. It’s barely enough time to draw meaningful, lasting conclusions about a team.