The St. Louis Blues announced Tuesday during their 3-0 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes that they have signed defenseman Logan Mailloux to a one-year contract extension for $850,000.
Mailloux, 22, is in his first season with the Blues after being acquired from the Montreal Canadiens on July 1, 2025 in exchange for forward Zack Bolduc.
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Mailloux (6 feet 3 inches, 212 pounds) has played 32 games this season and has two points (one goal, one assist).
Mailloux played 14:55 on Tuesday, but played a season-high 20:01 on Saturday in a 4-2 loss to the Vegas Golden Knights, mainly due to Philip Broberg’s departure from that game which forced the Blues to play with five defensemen for the majority of the game.
“When I look at a guy like Mailloux, I thought the last game might have been his best game of the year, balancing with the puck, carrying the puck and he found the rhythm of the game because he played more minutes because of Broberg’s unfortunate fall,” Blues coach Jim Montgomery said. “…With all young players, the more ice time they get, the more comfortable they feel. That’s true at every level. That being said, at this level, it’s hard to earn more ice time. You have to earn it, because to earn more ice time without injuries, you’re taking over someone’s minutes. It’s a deserved reward at this level.”
In total, the Belle River, Ontario native has seven points (three goals, four assists) in 40 regular season games in the NHL. Mailloux was originally drafted by the Canadiens in the first round (31st) of the 2021 NHL Entry Draft.
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“Some players come into the league, just like (Jimmy) Snuggerud did last year and boom, he assimilates them,” Montgomery said. “And when you look at Snuggerud this year, it’s been an adjustment because he’s getting used to traveling in different time zones, playing in different time zones, coming back, your maintenance, your recovery level, how do you recover at that level. Yes, we fly private jets, we stay in big hotels, but in college he never goes out in his time zone except five games out of 36 a year, and you see the same thing with (Otto) Stenberg, Dalibor Dvorsky and Mailloux are used to the Eastern time zone in the American (Hockey) League all the time. Now they play Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
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