Prospect Info: Cayden Lindstrom

[KJ Dangler]

Some notes

1. This was planned apparently. Even if he was cleared he wasn’t going to play.
2. Won’t be sent back to juniors until he can play.
3. Contract will be signed in training camp. Lindstroms side wants it done. Waddell wants to wait. But has promised them he will offer the ELC at camp.

I still can’t believe we drafted Lindstrom with the back issues over Demidov . I get the need for center , Demidov however was too good to pass on . Montreal has to be loving Waddell these days. By fall , he will have missed nearly a year of development . Hoping it passes , as CBJ Werenski said , watching him walk up the steps when we picked him makes me nervous

 

[Jovavic]

Lindstrom with his back issue would've been a good pick at like 7 or 8, at 4 you need to crush it and get damn near a sure thing and he's not. Who knows, maybe it'll all sort itself out and he'll enjoy a long career of being an impact player but I really doubt it, hope I'm wrong.

 

[squashmaple]

I'm not worried. I'd much prefer this to them pretending he's fine, rushing him back like he's fine, and then have him suffer a major setback. There's no reason to hurry. He's 18 and the team is going nowhere before he's 20.

 

[CBJWerenski8]

Waddell’s selected Lindstrom despite the back issue still healing and multiple opposing GMs extending trade offers for the pick.

“We had all the MRIs, our doctor talked to his doctor and we had all the images,” Waddell said. “We had everything. I’ve talked personally to the doctor, and there are no long-term concerns at all. It’s just getting it where he feels very comfortable twisting, turning and doing all that stuff. But there’s no reason to put him in contact in Buffalo, because that’s not going to prove anything.”

https://x.com/i/web/status/1828497510115221659

 

[ThirdPeriodTurtle]

Safe is good but gotta admit it's getting to the nervous territory. Hopefully it really is a "one and done" kind of a thing and it will be fully healed when he finally takes the ice.

 

[majormajor]

My view was that he was such a good athlete, such an incredible prospect, that I'd have him top five even if there were lingering back issues. But yes it sucks that that hypothetical is being tested.

 

[CalBuckeyeRob]

His back will never be "healed" like a fracture. It may have no symptoms, but the disk is still damaged and more susceptible to injury whenever they let him resume full activities. We all hope he manages to avoid the recurrence of the problems, but he will be at risk.

 

[AnonCommentary]

Hedger might want to double check that it was his back that’s surgically repaired. We do know for a fact that his hand injury from earlier last year was repaired. This is the first I’ve seen of the back being “surgically repaired”

 

[CBJWerenski8]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1828547913061945708

 

[KJ Dangler]

Recommended heal time for herniated disc is 3 months .. we are nearing what , 9 mos ?

 

[Cowumbus]

Did he get assigned to Medicine Hat? I can’t find any recent news

 

[EspenK]

Did he get assigned to Medicine Hat? I can’t find any recent news

This got me to thinking. He is not signed so I don't think at this point the Jackets have any real control. All they have is the right to sign him and no one else can.
If he goes back to MH he may be rushed back into action
I guess Jackets could sign him and IR him if they are confident he will be ready at some point and then send him down.