Prospect Info: Cayden Lindstrom

[The Last Red]

Funny timing then I guess. You're just here telling us what you would have done because...?

If "it comes down to who would have been a better pick at 4OA" then let's revisit in a coupla years. Like with pretty much all draft picks. And then you can can tell us if you were right.

I am acknowledging that Lindstrom might very well be the best pick at 4OA. I still wouldn't have done it due to the risk factor and available alternatives. That's all that I said.

 

[Xoggz22]

This is hilarious. I'm glad you're all experts on this topic and have seen his medical chart and know the future. Can we save the "I told you so" until there is actually an impact and something to reference this issue for. This is not the first player to have a back issue or even this issue. I mean, I can't believe how poorly things have gone for Jack Eichel. Seriously, you want a poster child for back issues...that guy. And he had disc replacement. Not a minor surgery. Can we at least give it a couple years before the doom and gloom. Utterly ridiculous.

 

[Dumais]

If Lindstrom hits, O.M.G
If Lindstrom bust, Typical CBJ

With a total lack of knowledge, I hope for the best.

 

[Fred Glover]

Took a teenager in the top five who has a bad back. Unbelievable.

That is their alibi

 

[ThisIsMyAlibi]

This is hilarious. I'm glad you're all experts on this topic and have seen his medical chart and know the future. Can we save the "I told you so" until there is actually an impact and something to reference this issue for. This is not the first player to have a back issue or even this issue. I mean, I can't believe how poorly things have gone for Jack Eichel. Seriously, you want a poster child for back issues...that guy. And he had disc replacement. Not a minor surgery. Can we at least give it a couple years before the doom and gloom. Utterly ridiculous.

different injury because it occurred in a different area of the spine

 

[Xoggz22]

different injury because it occurred in a different area of the spine

Very true, but also was a radical surgery that goes well beyond the minor surgery for Lindstrom. It may shorten Eichel's career, but my point was it didn't end his career and some of the talk on here seems more driven to "I told you so, he's a bust" before anything has happened. He could be a bust without this issue. It's just my opinion that there is way too much being put on this given we have seen Mark Stone and Andrei Vasilevsky have this surgery, later in their careers and have been able to play at a high level. Stone has had multiple injuries so I'm not sure he's a great example here, but this is not a death nail it's being made out to be. Again, that's my take on this thread and I just find it silly at this point.

 

[AnonCommentary]

Item No. 3: Lindstrom’s back The Blue Jackets revealed last Wednesday that Cayden Lindstrom, the club’s No. 4 overall draft pick this past summer, had back surgery to relieve symptoms caused by a herniated disc in his lower back. The procedure is called a lumbar microdiscectomy. Waddell said doctors expect Lindstrom to make a full recovery and are optimistic that, after a month or so of rest, he can resume skating and training and return to play yet this season. Upon hearing this news, hundreds of amateur back surgeons in Columbus and the rest of the hockey world expressed concern that Lindstrom’s back would never be 100 percent and/or that the Blue Jackets erred in selecting Lindstrom so high last June.