{"id":285491,"date":"2025-11-11T15:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/285491\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T15:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:17:09","slug":"brandon-duhaimes-dog-walk-goes-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/285491\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Duhaime\u2019s \u2018dog walk\u2019 goes international"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not only is Brandon Duhaime a bona fide checking-line forward in the NHL, but he\u2019s also becoming an inspiration across the world.<\/p>\n

Friday, two players from the KHL team Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg, Roman Gorbunov and Vladimir Galkin, did their best \u201cDoggie\u201d impersonation inside their locker room.<\/p>\n

Galkin, the goaltender, put his goalie stick inside the jersey collar of Gorbunov, the team\u2019s leading goal-scorer, and walked him around the room like a dog. Of course, there\u2019s barking. Their teammates were amused.<\/p>\n

On the team\u2019s Telegram account<\/a>, Avtomobilist wrote, \u201cWashington vs. Avtomobilist\u2019s pregame ritual \ud83d\ude01,\u201d per a Google translation.<\/p>\n

Gorbunov and Galkin\u2019s antics were, of course, a direct play off John Carlson and Duhaime\u2019s dog walk<\/a> two nights before as the Capitals prepared to play the St. Louis Blues.<\/p>\n

Imitation, you see, is the sincerest form of flattery.<\/p>\n

Late last week, 106.7 The Fan\u2019s Sports Junkies<\/a> asked Duhaime to explain why he got on all fours and transformed into a junkyard dog.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah. I mean, not much to it,\u201d Duhaime said. \u201cThe tunnel\u2019s kind of been an ongoing joke with our team and just a fun place to be. I don\u2019t know, heat of the moment, it got reckless in there. So that\u2019s all I got.\u201d<\/p>\n

To make the bit work as intended, Duhaime said that he had to have \u201cfull commitment on that one, for sure,\u201d which surely he accomplished.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think everyone\u2019s kind of in on it,\u201d he said. \u201cI think really anything goes in that tunnel, to be honest with you. So it\u2019s a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

And now that fun is going international.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not only is Brandon Duhaime a bona fide checking-line forward in the NHL, but he\u2019s also becoming an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-285491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}