{"id":385531,"date":"2026-01-01T22:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/385531\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T22:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:23:10","slug":"st-louis-blues-zach-dean-cleared-by-nhl-nhlpa-player-assistance-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/385531\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Blues\u2019 Zach Dean cleared by NHL\/NHLPA Player Assistance Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/st-louis-blues\/19\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/st-louis-blues\/19\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Blues<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/zach-dean\/8482784\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/zach-dean\/8482784\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Dean<\/a> has been cleared by the NHL\/NHLPA Player Assistance Program, the team announced. He will return to active status with the organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dean, 22, has been assigned to the Springfield Thunderbirds of the American Hockey League and will report to the team on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Grand Prairie, Alta., native has appeared in nine NHL games with the Blues, all coming during the 2023-24 season. Dean has also appeared in 60 career AHL games with the Thunderbirds, scoring 10 goals and 18 points. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was acquired from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vegas-golden-knights\/54\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vegas-golden-knights\/54\" target=\"_blank\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> on Feb. 26, 2023, in exchange for forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/ivan-barbashev\/8477964\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/ivan-barbashev\/8477964\" target=\"_blank\">Ivan Barbashev<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dean was originally selected 30th overall by the Golden Knights in the 2021 NHL Draft. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Louis Blues forward Zach Dean has been cleared by the NHL\/NHLPA Player Assistance Program, the team announced.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,5,4,33561,49537],"class_list":{"0":"post-385531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-st-louis-blues-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-19","12":"tag-zach-dean-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8482784"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115822186044239013","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}