Prospect Info: Cayden Lindstrom

[stevo61]

You're not wrong but the seed of doubt isn't being planted in people's minds for 0 reason.

The seed of doubt is getting planted because the team willingly spent a top 5 pick on a guy with a bad back and then was surprised when his bad back caused him to miss an entire year of development.

if you want to worry about the injury overall? sure. If you are forming evaluations about his current conditioning, skating, explosiveness that's where I say it makes no sense

 

[cbjthrowaway]

I think you have to trust your medical staff and scouts.

yeah, either waddell and siren completely disregarded the medical staff, or they listened and the medical staff ended up being wrong. or they got bad info to begin with, but if that was the case they wouldn’t have sent him back to medicine hat.

all the people ripping waddell for the pick are ignoring that a GM should listen to the doctors. what else is he supposed to do?

if you have pick #4 and the #2 guy on your board is available, and your doctors signed off on his bill of health, you don’t overthink it, and you run to the podium.

 

[Xoggz22]

I'm not going to tell any of you that you shouldn't be worried. I don't carry the same concern as many of you. My eye rolls with this thread is the predictive measures I read and the thought that we, as fans, can make an educated conclusion on the final outcome. He's a high value asset. Any rush to play or judgement is not good for the brain. Let it play out, then complain if it was a bad call. It's not a bad call at this point, just a point in time that sucks to go through for him, the team and us. He played, he has an off season, he's young

 

[ClevelandJacketFan]

He's going to get a full offseason being fully healthy, being able to work both on his body and his game.

If he was going to be rehabbing and dealing with his back again, I'd be super concerned with his development, but I believe this will be good for his development. Now if his back flares up again while at MSU, or it continually is a problem, then I'll be worried.

I don't have concerns with the skill at all. Just need more games.

 

[OldGoaltender]

The thing that helps Linstrom more than anything else is age. His body is still growing so that’s a huge benefit.

 

[Ice9]

Work that core kid…