Dillon: ‘Surreal’ to be Playing in Stanley Cup Final

Here is Dillon’s blog from Tuesday, an off day between Game 1 and Game 2:

It’s been a long road to this point of the Stanley Cup Final. It wasn’t always an easy one or one that was mapped out exactly according to plan.

When I was younger, I was one of the smaller guys on my hockey team. My 16-year-old year, I was 5-foot-3 and I think that was probably the reason why I wasn’t given that much of a look back then by Western Hockey League teams. It forced me to work on other parts of my game, skating, puck movement; little things that are staples in the game today. It’s pretty surreal to now be playing in the Stanley Cup Final; to just be in the lineup, let alone be someone who is contributing and trying to make the team better.

It’s kind of tough to not get caught up in the moment at night, when you are lying in bed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania getting ready for Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final.

This is something that as a kid you dream about. It is why you go to the 6 a.m. practices and why you are playing street hockey with your buddies in front of the house all the time. At the end of the day, this is where every guy wants to be.

It’s amazing to me to see how much work goes into getting to this point. Every guy in the NHL can say they have worked hard; I think every NHL guy can say they have had to make sacrifices along the way. I think sometimes …

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