Overview
- Dillon Dube agreed to a one-year, one-way contract with the St. Louis Blues on Wednesday, July 1, 2026, for $850,000, the club announced.
- The one-way structure means Dube will earn the same salary whether he plays in the NHL or is assigned to the AHL, reducing his immediate pay risk if he is sent to the minors.
- Dube is resuming his pro career after a July 2025 acquittal in the 2018 Canada world junior sexual assault case and the NHL’s reinstatement of him and four teammates later that year.
- On the ice, Dube spent 2025–26 with the AHL’s Springfield Thunderbirds where he scored 20 goals and 37 points in 46 games and had five goals in 12 playoff contests, and he previously played the 2024–25 season in the KHL with Dinamo Minsk.
- This signing makes Dube the second of the five acquitted players to land an NHL contract since the trial and reflects a broader, uneven return-to-play pattern that will test how teams balance roster needs, public scrutiny, and player reintegration.