Jakob Chychrun signed a massive eight-year, $72 million extension with the Washington Capitals Tuesday, but that big-money deal wasn’t what went viral. Instead, that honor belonged to Dylan Strome’s comments on the NHL Unscripted podcast, where he said that Chychrun wants to have no light bulbs in his house.
Chychrun got an opportunity to comment on the story Wednesday afternoon as a guest on 106.7 The Fan’s Grant & Danny show. While a small portion of Strome’s comments were accurate, Chychrun says the Capitals’ top-line center embellished most of the actual details for comedic effect.
“This guy just completely threw me under the bus,” Chychrun said, laughing. “We were just chatting in the room the other day, and as I mentioned earlier, my wife and I are just big into living a clean, healthy life. I told the boys, the last few nights after dinner, we like to turn the lights off in the house and do no artificial light and just light some candles. It’s been really nice — sleeping like a baby when I do that.
“And then Stromer decided to go on a podcast last week and say I took every light bulb out of my house, and now people think I’m an absolute freak. He completely sewered me, so now I’m dealing with that. I’m like a walking meme right now. I deleted all my socials, so I can’t even see anything, but I’ve got in-laws and cousins sending me screenshots of some of these tweets and posts of people all over me for this beeswax candle thing.”
Strome, who was once roommates with Chychrun while the two played for the Arizona Coyotes, seemingly took advantage of Chychrun’s reputation as a health nut to make a playful jab at him. Chychrun has previously spoken about his self-titled “ancestral” diet, which includes consuming things like raw milk, raw liver, raw beef heart, and apparently entire watermelons.
Regardless on if Chychrun is a light bulb-hater or not in his personal life, he did add an assist to his career-best season on Tuesday night against the Winnipeg Jets, increasing his point total to 44 (18g, 26a) in 66 games. He skated 21:19 of ice time in his first game since signing his extension, recording the assist, four shots on goal, eight individual shot attempts, two individual scoring chances, one shot block, and a drawn penalty.
With production like that, we can’t really question his peculiarities off the ice.
