It could also be that both sides informed by the recent Kylington situation, Dube approached and said "I need a leave for personal/mental reasons" possibly still under the delusion that he could try to deal with this privately.
Then the Flames knowing eventually this was coming but not knowing when, might have thought the whole investigation was weighing on him mentally, feeling it would be difficult to treat their employees differently accepted his leave with that explanation not prying further, drafted a statement saying, Dillon Dube has requested a Mental health leave, ran it by his agent got it rubber stamped, released it, and learnt latter that night when others started leaving too that the shoe they knew was coming was in fact dropping, and now given all of the legal issues involved just prefer not to comment until at least the charges come out and they can release him from his contract.
I think it's always dangerous to assume people knew 10 days ago what you know now when applying intent to their actions.
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