Winnipeg Jets’ Brenden Dillon Q&A: ‘There’s just no time to feel sorry for yourself’
Brenden Dillon is a lunch-pail sort of NHL player. He wasn’t drafted in the first round; he wasn’t drafted at all. In fact, the 6-foot-4, 220-pound defenceman wasn’t even drafted into the WHL. They thought he was too small (and, at 5 feet 2 as a 15-year-old, maybe he was.) But Dillon didn’t give up. He calls the long road he took from undersized Junior B hockey player to an NHL career that sits at 807 games and counting “a blessing in disguise.” He thinks of the power skating and strength conditioning he worked at when he was working to…
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