Inside the NHL’s Biggest Contract Surprises of 2025: Who’s Winning and Losing Big Bucks?

Everything changed for the Blues once Montgomery was hired and the team acquired Fowler, enough to push St. Louis from one of the league’s worst cap sheets towards average. There’s still work to do, but there’s a lot more good than bad these days.

Chief among those are Dylan Holloway and Philip Broberg’s offer-sheet deals, both of which literally could not have panned out better. The Blues stole them away for a combined cap hit of $6.6 million and their expected value for 2025-26 has risen to $16 million. There’s a good chance extensions for both come well below that combined figure too.

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