Brenden Dillon was a guest on Elliotte Friedman and Jeff Marek’s 31 Thoughts podcast last week.
Dillon, who was traded by the Sharks to the Capitals at the trade deadline for two high draft picks, spoke about his eagerness to restart the season and lamented about the possible missed opportunities if the season is ultimately canceled.
Capitals defenseman Brenden Dillon was a guest on ESPN On Ice with Wyshynski and Kaplan on Tuesday.
Dillon talked about how he’s coping with his quarantine life (Disney tunes) and the “lucky” trade deadline deal that brought him to Washington. The longtime Shark also spoke about the TikTok video he created with his girlfriend Emma Wittchow last month. Dillon and Wittchow took the Dip and Lean Challenge.
“When you spend two to three weeks in a hotel there’s only so many puzzles or Netflix you can watch and do,” Dillon joked.
Brenden Dillon just became the second Capitals player to jump on TikTok to make a dance video a week after Brendan Leipsic flipped the switch.
The Capitals defenseman completed the Dip and Lean Challenge with his girlfriend Emma Wittchow.
The dude’s got moves.
Ilya Kovalchuk will become the first Washington Capitals player ever to have a Russian-language goal song, according to the team’s social media accounts.
Alex Ovechkin (‘Shake, Rattle, & Roll’), Evgeny Kuznetsov (‘Get Low’), and Dmitry Orlov (‘Oh Yeah’) previously chose English-language songs. We’re allowed to pick “French, Spanish, English, but not the Russian for some reason, it is not allowed,” Kuznetsov said to the Washington Post’s Samantha Pell in November. The arrival of Kovalchuk apparently has lifted that ban.
The Capitals released an updated list of players’ goal songs that included the picks of the team’s new additions at the trade deadline: Kovalchuk and Brenden Dillon.
Brenden Dillon got in his first career fight as a member of the Washington Capitals after Ilya Kovalchuk was incensed by a wicked slash by Ryan Hartman.
The new guy is sticking up for the new guy. I love it.
NBC Sports Washington trained an overhead camera on the Washington Capitals while they were in the tunnel readying for warmups in Winnipeg, Thursday.
And it’s… a lot.
The Capitals, who are known for already having an exorbitant amount of pregame rituals and superstitions, now have even more with the addition of Brenden Dillon.
The Washington Capitals seem to have turned a corner. They’re not “back to good” yet, but they’re at least trending in the right direction. Though I shared a bunch of thoughts after watching Tuesday’s game in person, there’s one nit I’d like to pick in more detail.
I think the Capitals defensive pairs are all wrong.
By Peter Hassett 3 months ago
Capitals’ general manager Brian MacLellan spoke with the media shortly after the NHL trade deadline passed at 3 PM.
MacLellan spent a majority of his talk focusing on the acquisition of forward Ilya Kovalchuk from the Montreal Canadiens for a third-round pick. The Stanley Cup-winning GM sees Kovalchuk fitting in on the team’s third line, replacing Richard Panik on the right wing. “We can start him in our bottom six and move him up for shifts, depending on the coaches. I just think it gives our coaching staff a lot of flexibility.”
Mac added that he spoke to Kovy and the Olympic gold medalist was willing to take any role that was needed on the team to have a chance to win the Stanley Cup.
“I’ve talked to him a couple times about accepting a role and he’s pretty clear in his mind that he’ll do anything as long as he has a chance to win a championship,” MacLellan said.
At the end of the first period, Brenden Dillon *officially* became a Washington Capital when he attempted to punch Evgeni Malkin’s face many times.
Brenden, welcome to the rivalry. You can now stay forever.
Brenden Dillon met with reporters for the first time Thursday after skating with his new Capitals teammates for the first time. Dillon will make his Caps debut tonight against the Montreal Canadiens and partner up with John Carlson on the first pairing.
During his press conference, Dillon spoke to the press for nearly 10 minutes, including a guy we’d happily welcome onto our blog, aspiring journalist Nic Dowd.
Using a skate guard as a mic (tsk tsk always having a working recording device, kids), Dowd asked Dillon if he packed any underwear.
By Ian Oland and Cara Bahniuk 3 months ago
