Cayden Lindstrom says teams don’t seem too worried about his back injury “It was a disc herniation. Those things take a long time to heal. It effected the nerve in my leg & gave me a little sciatic. It was nothing too crazy … I’m feeling great now”
by AnonCommentary
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I’m not an NHL scout or anything but I am really doubting that teams aren’t worried
yea no big deal i just had a disc herniation it pressed on my sciatic nerve to the point where i couldn’t play hockey for the last 3 months of my season and still am not really doing anything hockey related.
My guess is this is also similar to Ryan Murray’s back injury that he always had and recurred. Just take demidov if he’s there. We’re going to be picking top 10 next year most likely and that center class is better anyways
This has bust written all over it
Holy shit. When I had my back issues my doctor was always asking if pain went into my legs. Thankfully it never did, but he said that is when things get really bad.
Full pass on Lindstrom IMO.
Of course this means we take him with Demidov or Silayev still on the board probably.
Run away, Don. Far away.
Of course Lindstrom and everyone around him are going to downplay this as much as possible, it’s 100% in their interest to do so. If I’m picking at 4OA, there is absolutely no way I’m gambling a pick you can’t afford to miss on a 6’4″ power forward with a signficant back injury in his early 20’s…that is the reddest of red flags. How can you justify that while guys with huge upside like Silayev, Demidov, Senneke, Catton, etc will be there at that spot?
i love when there is news about player injuries, its when we learn that everyone on reddit are doctors
If we draft him he becomes Nathan Horton. If somebody else drafts him he becomes Leon Draisaitl. That’s just the rules of the hockey universe
Sometimes it better to just shut the fuck. May have talked his way out of a job.
I assume Lindstrom’s agent came running into the room and ended the interview 1 second after this quote.
As bad as I feel for the kid I actually am a little happy for him. It’s not like the NFL where he’s going to lose any money by dropping a few spots or even a few rounds. Odds are he’s going to land on a better roster and be surrounded by better talent to give him every possible chance to reach his full potential. Hope he can stay healthy and lose the next 4 SCFs to the Blue Jackets.
Shouldn’t it be “affected”?