Blues sign former Oiler Dylan Holloway to five-year, $7.75 million AAV extension

Holloway, 24, is coming off a two-year, $2.29 million AAV offer sheet contract he signed with the Blues in August 2024. In the two years since arriving in St. Louis, he’s scored 48 goals and 114 points in 136 regular season games, but hasn’t played in a playoff game. While the Blues made the playoffs in 2024-25, Holloway was out with an injury as they lost their first-round matchup with the Winnipeg Jets in seven games.

With him on the ice at five-on-five over the last two years, the Blues have outscored the opposition 109-73, controlling 59.9 per cent of the goal share, as well as 53.1 per cent of the expected goal share. This past season, he drove offence and defence at three per cent rates above league average, with his overall contributions in each season being that of a high-end second-line player, or a low-end first-line player, according to HockeyViz.com.

Last September, Holloway shared why he left the Oilers.

“It rubbed me the wrong way how little Edmonton thought of me in our contract negotiations. I’m an Alberta boy, I wanted to go back to a team we went so far with, but as soon as Edmonton didn’t reciprocate that feeling, I was all in on St. Louis.”

He and Philip Broberg will make up part of the new core for the Blues, with the defenceman having signed a six-year, $8 million AAV contract in January. Broberg has appeared in 149 games for the Blues over the last two years since signing his offer sheet, scoring 14 goals and 63 points, adding a goal an an assist in the seven games series against the Jets.

HockeyViz had his offensive contributions at a five per cent rate above league average, with his defensive contributions at a league average rate this past season. Overall, his contributions in each of the last two years have been that of a first-pairing defenceman.

The Oilers received 2025 second- and third-round picks for Holloway and Broberg in the offer sheets, as well as receiving a 2028 third-round pick and defenceman Paul Fischer.