{"id":151313,"date":"2025-09-17T22:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T22:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/151313\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T22:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T22:15:08","slug":"calgary-flames-not-interested-in-bringing-dillon-dube-back-to-the-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/151313\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Flames not interested in bringing Dillon Dube back to the team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CALGARY \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/calgary-flames\/20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/calgary-flames\/20\" target=\"_blank\">Calgary Flames<\/a> aren\u2019t interested in bringing forward Dillon Dube back into the fold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dube, a former Flame, was one of five hockey players acquitted in July of sexual assault charges stemming from an incident in London, Ont., in 2018 when they were members of Canada\u2019s world junior team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">When asked if the Flames were interested in re-signing Dube, Flames general manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/craig-conroy\/8455919\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/craig-conroy\/8455919\" target=\"_blank\">Craig Conroy<\/a> said no and that Dube probably needs a fresh start.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dube was captain of the Canadian junior team in 2018 and a second-round pick of the Flames in 2016. The five-foot-11, 185-pound forward had 57 goals and 70 assists in 325 games as a Flame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He took an indefinite leave from the Flames in January 2024 when the team said he was attending to his mental health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dube, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/carter-hart\/8479394\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/carter-hart\/8479394\" target=\"_blank\">Carter Hart<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/cal-foote\/8479984\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/cal-foote\/8479984\" target=\"_blank\">Cal Foote<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/michael-mcleod\/8479415\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/michael-mcleod\/8479415\" target=\"_blank\">Michael McLeod<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/alex-formenton\/8480029\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/alex-formenton\/8480029\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Formenton<\/a> were charged with sexual assault later that month. Dube\u2019s contract with the Flames expired last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 17, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALGARY \u2014 The Calgary Flames aren\u2019t interested in bringing forward Dillon Dube back into the fold. Dube, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-151313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}