articleThe Brief Five NHL players, including former Flyer Carter Hart, have been acquitted in a sexual assault case. Former Philadelphia Flyer Carter Hart and four other former members of Canada's world junior hockey team have been acquitted on charges related to a sexual assault case that dated back to June 2018. The backstory:In 2022, allegations of a sexual assault involving players from 2018's Team Canada World Juniors team emerged to the public. Michael McLeod, Dillon Dube, Carter Hart, and Callan Foote, were all active players in the NHL. McLeod, who was charged with both sexual assault and being a party to a sexual assault, had recorded two videos of the woman, one of which saying it was "all consensual".