Is Dylan Holloway having buyer’s remorse?
Once a top prospect in the Edmonton Oilers system who played a part in the team’s top-six during their 2024 run to the Stanley Cup Final, two months after being eliminated, he was changing addresses. It wasn’t because of a trade, but rather by way of accepting an offer sheet from the St. Louis Blues.
The deal pays him $2.29-million over two years, a deal which was a bit off from the three-year, $1.05-million AAV deal the Oilers had reportedly offered him prior to the offer sheet last August. The Oilers declined the offer sheet for not only him but defenceman Phillip Broberg, too, pivoting and adding other pieces in their wake.
But now, Holloway has decided to change agents from Dynasty Hockey Group’s Blake Robson, who has one other NHL client in Nashville Predators defenceman Nick Blankenburg, to Wasserman Hockey’s Judd Moldaver, according to PuckPedia.
The #stlblues F Dylan Holloway has changed agents and is now represented by Judd Moldaver @wassermanhockey
He’s entering year 2/2 $2.29M cap hit deal signed as offer sheet, and will be RFA with arbitration on expiry. https://t.co/w2HWUdhZ1p
— PuckPedia (@PuckPedia) June 8, 2025
Holloway will mark Moldaver’s 18th client, some of whom are among the biggest names in hockey in Connor McDavid, Auston Matthews, Zach Werenski, Roman Josi and Connor Brown, according to PuckPedia.
Entering the final of those two years, Holloway will look to build on a strong 2024-25 season that ended short. He appeared in 77 games for the Blues this season, scoring 26 goals and 63 points, missing the final five games of the regular season and all of the playoffs with an undisclosed injury. Blues GM Doug Armstrong revealed after they were eliminated by the Winnipeg Jets that Holloway had surgery on the injury, and that he would be ready for the start of next season.
When Holloway’s contract ends, he’s set to be a restricted free agent with arbitration rights.
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Zach Laing is Oilersnation’s associate editor, senior columnist, and The Nation Network’s news director. He also makes up one-half of the DFO DFS Report. He can be followed on Twitter, currently known as X, at @zjlaing, or reached by email at zach.laing@bettercollective.com.
