Dilan Savenkov

Dilan Savenkov (born 6 August 2001) is an Estonian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for the Norfolk Admirals of the ECHL.

Club career As a youth, Savenkov played for the under-16 team of Espoo Blues in Finland for the 2016-17 season. For the 2018–19 season, he joined the Sherbrooke Phoenix of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. He played fourteen games during the season, collecting two assists, before being released by the club in January 2019. He then joined the St-Jérôme Panthers of the Quebec Junior Hockey League in November 2019. He would then go on to play for several clubs in the North American Hockey League including the Shreveport Mudbugs, Lone Star Brahmas, Kenai River Brown Bears, and New Jersey Junior Titans between 2018 and 2021. Savenkov won the Robertson Cup with the Mudbugs during his final season in the league.

Starting in 2021, Savenkov played two seasons of U Sports ice hockey for the Alberta Golden Bears of the University of Alberta. He accumulated three goals and four assists in thirty games before being invited to training camp with the Springfield Thunderbirds of the American Hockey League in October 2023. He signed his first professional contract with the Trois-Rivières Lions of the ECHL on 9 October 2023 and made his profession debut with the club on 29 October in a 6–7 loss to the Reading Royals.

Savenkov played for six total ECHL clubs between the 2023–24 and 2024–25 seasons. The clubs included the Reading Royals, Orlando Solar Bears, Cincinnati Cyclones, Savannah Ghost Pirates, and Utah Grizzlies, in addition to the Trois-Rivières Lions. In spring 2024, Savenkov was invited back to the Springfield Thunderbirds AHL training camp. He appeared for the team in the final exhibition of the pre-season, a game against the Providence Bruins on 5 October 2024. He was then sent back to his training camp with the Worcester Railers following the game. As one of the youngest players on the team, he also tallied an assist in the competition, his first major tournament with the national under-20 side.