{"id":385815,"date":"2026-01-02T01:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/385815\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T01:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:12:07","slug":"dean-cleared-by-nhl-nhlpa-player-assistance-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/385815\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean cleared by NHL\/NHLPA Player Assistance Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Blues announced today that forward Zach Dean  has been cleared by the NHL\/NHLPA Player Assistance Program to return to active status with the organization.<\/p>\n<p>Dean has been assigned to the Blues\u2019 AHL affiliate, the Springfield Thunderbirds, and will report to the team Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Dean, 22, has appeared in 60 career AHL regular-season games for the Thunderbirds, recording 18 points (10 goals, eight assists) and 26 penalty minutes. The Grande Prairie, Alberta native has also played in nine career NHL regular-season games with the Blues.<\/p>\n<p>Dean was acquired via trade by the Blues from the Vegas Golden Knights on Feb. 26, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>He was originally drafted by the Golden Knights in the first round, No, 30 overall, of the 2021 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Louis Blues announced today that forward Zach Dean has been cleared by the NHL\/NHLPA Player Assistance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-385815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}