BROSSARD — The Montreal Canadiens traded defenceman Logan Mailloux to the St. Louis Blues for forward Zack Bolduc on Tuesday before NHL free agency opened.
Mailloux, of Windsor, Ont., produced 12 goals and 21 assists in 63 games with the American Hockey League’s Laval Rocket last season. He was an AHL all-star in 2024 and 2025.
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The 22-year-old right-shot blueliner added two goals and two assists in seven games with the Canadiens in the NHL.
Bolduc had 19 goals and 17 assists in 72 games with the Blues last season. The 22-year-old from Trois-Rivières, Que., added one assist in seven playoff games.
Both players are entering the final season of their entry-level contracts.
The trade comes a few days after the Canadiens acquired Noah Dobson from the New York Islanders and signed the right-shot defenceman to an eight-year, US$76-million contract.
In other news, centre Christian Dvorak is leaving the Canadiens and joining the Philadelphia Flyers on a one-year, $5.4-million contract via free agency.
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Dvorak, 29, had 12 goals and 21 assists in 82 games last season.
The six-foot, 187-pound Bolduc was drafted 17th overall by the Blues in 2021.
That same draft, then-Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin made the controversial decision to select Mailloux with the 31st overall pick, despite the blueliner publicly asking not to be chosen following an incident in Sweden.
While on loan to SK Lejon, Mailloux had been fined by Swedish authorities in 2020 after admitting to two charges related to sharing, without her consent, a photo of a woman performing a sexual act.
The Ontario Hockey League later suspended Mailloux, who played for the London Knights, from September to December 2021.
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Mailloux has previously said he “deeply regrets” taking and then sharing that photo with his teammates “to impress them.”
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 1, 2025.
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