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The Hockey PDOcast

Summer Series Part 2 With Brenden Dillon

The Hockey PDOcast

Sportsnet

Nhl, Sports, Hockey, Sportsnet

4.8920 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Dimitri Filipovic is joined by Thomas Drance and Brenden Dillon to talk about his first year in New Jersey, the growing list of responsibilities that come with being a defenseman in the NHL in 2025, and how much the game has changed since he first got into the league.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Regressing to the mean since 2015, it's the Hockey PEDEOCast with your host, Dmitri

0:16.3

Filipovich.

0:19.3

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast. My name is Dmitri Filipovich and joining me here in studio, my good buddy Thomas Trans. Tom, what's going on?

0:25.8

Let's go, buddy. You're excited about this one?

0:27.8

I'm very excited about this one.

0:18.2

We teased it a bit yesterday.

0:19.2

We had Todd Diamond on.

0:20.7

We're doing people in the game week,

0:22.1

and we had Todd Diamond on.

0:23.4

I got to say, I was excited about it because I was a fan of the work he'd done

0:26.4

certainly this off season

0:28.4

and cleaning up Todd Diamond on. I got to say, I was, I was excited about it because I was a fan of the work he'd done, certainly,

0:29.3

this off season and cleaning up in free agency. So we're his clients, yeah. You had spoken highly about him, and then he just blew me away. Like, he came in hot. We were making jokes about Don Waddell and his interactions with him. He was giving us the insight on William Eklund's bridge deal this summer.

0:39.6

It was fantastic.

0:35.3

We're going to keep it going.

0:36.2

We got the agent perspective.

0:36.9

We're going to get the player perspective now. Joining us in studio, Brendan Dillon, making his return appearance after a triumphant debut last year. I got so much good feedback on that show. People love your candor, the way you came in. We talked a lot about your free agency and signing with the devils and everything.

0:38.4

So it's good to have you back.

1:11.8

How's it going on?

1:12.6

Yeah, no, it's going great.

1:13.0

It's almost the anniversary of it.

1:14.0

It was right around early, early mid-July, I think, last year. So we're going to make this a yearly thing, I guess. It will be. Let's go. We'll see. Yeah, yeah, I got to hold up to expectations.

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