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Columbus Blue Jackets News / The Hockey Writers / June 30
2026 Blue Jackets Development Camp Notes: Lindstrom, Smith, Andreyanov, Hemming
The 2026 Development Camp is underway for the Columbus Blue Jackets. It features each of the four first-round picks from 2024-2026. Cayden Lindstrom (2024) is attending his third development camp.
Columbus Blue Jackets News / The Hockey Writers / June 30
3 Takeaways From Day 1 of Blue Jackets Development Camp
The Columbus Blue Jackets opened up their team development camp with a split squad of recent draftees from their past three draft classes, as well as other camp invitees who are looking to make a splash in front of team brass.
NHL News / Daily Faceoff / June 20
2026 NHL Draft rankings: Final top 120
One. Week. To. Go. The 2026 NHL Draft is set to take place June 26-27 in Buffalo, less than a month after around 100 players met with teams in person at the combine.
The ''EA NHL,'' covers since 2000' quiz
How many of the players to grace the cover of each EA NHL video game going back to 'NHL 2000?"
NHL News / Daily Faceoff / May 27
2026 NHL Draft Rankings: May Top 100
We’re finally almost at the end game. The 2026 NHL Draft will take place in just less than a month in Buffalo, with more than 200 players hoping to have their names called and their dreams realized.
The best and worst NHL free agency deals since 2000
The NHL has had an interesting new millennium. It was a league sans a salary cap when the 2000s started… and then the owners locked the players out for an entire season.
NHL News / Daily Faceoff / April 14
2026 NHL Draft Rankings: McKenna leads pre-U-18 World Championship top 75
The 2026 Under-18 World Championship is the last chance for most of the game’s top prospects to showcase what they’re capable of ahead of the NHL Draft.
Columbus Blue Jackets News / Pro Hockey Rumors / March 23
Cayden Lindstrom, Jackson Smith To Return To NCAA
Cayden Lindstrom and Jackson Smith, two of the Columbus Blue Jackets’ top prospects, will not turn pro at the conclusion of their respective freshman campaigns in college hockey.
NHL News / Pro Hockey Rumors / December 4
Big Hype Prospects: Letourneau, Lindstrom, Surin, Pulkkinen
Here, we’re taking a look at the performances of top prospects from across the hockey world.
Michigan State Spartans News / Michigan State Spartans on SI / June 18, 2025
Four MSU Players Projected to Go in NHL Draft
Michigan State hockey has arrived. Under head coach Adam Nightingale, the Spartans are quickly becoming one of the NCAA’s premier talent pipelines — not just for college hockey success, but for NHL development, too.
Columbus Blue Jackets News / The Hockey Writers / June 17, 2025
Blue Jackets’ Lindstrom Makes Right Call Heading to NCAA
Cayden Lindstrom is officially heading to Michigan State University. After a postseason return to the Canadian Hockey League for Medicine Hat Tigers, the Columbus Blue Jackets prospect opted to leave the Canadian Junior hockey system and make his collegiate commitment official.
NHL News / Michigan State Spartans on SI / June 5, 2025
Top NHL Prospect Heading to MSU
East Lansing is turning into a hockey hotbed. Cayden Lindstrom, the Columbus Blue Jackets' top prospect and fourth overall pick in the 2024 NHL Draft, is just another CHL player making the move into college hockey as a Michigan State Spartan.
The defining figure for every NHL franchise
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
Columbus Blue Jackets News / House of Hockey / June 5, 2025
Fourth Overall Pick Abandons Junior Hockey to Sign University Deal
Columbus Blue Jackets' fourth overall pick, Cayden Lindstrom, has decided to abandon junior hockey and sign a deal with an NCAA university team instead.
Columbus Blue Jackets News / The Hockey Writers / May 9, 2025
Cayden Lindstrom Records Point on First Shift in 399 Days
Columbus Blue Jackets prospect Cayden Lindstrom has been on quite the journey in his last 399 days. On Friday night in Game 1 of the WHL Finals, his journey reached a moment of pride.
Columbus Blue Jackets News / Daily Faceoff / May 9, 2025
Top Blue Jackets prospect Cayden Lindstrom to make season debut during Game 1 of WHL final
Medicine Hat Tigers head coach Willie Desjardins confirmed that Columbus Blue Jackets’ top prospect Cayden Lindstrom will make his season debut during Game 1 of the WHL Final versus the Spokane Chiefs.
Columbus Blue Jackets News / Pro Hockey Rumors / March 29, 2025
Report reveals where Blue Jackets prospect may play next season
Things haven’t gone as planned for Blue Jackets prospect Cayden Lindstrom this season. Felled by a back injury dating back to before the draft last year, he has yet to suit up in 2024-25 and isn’t expected to.
Columbus Blue Jackets News / Daily Faceoff / March 28, 2025
Report: Blue Jackets prospect Cayden Lindstrom expected to commit to NCAA’s Michigan State
Columbus Blue Jackets prospect Cayden Lindstrom looks to be heading to Michigan State, according to The Athletic’s Aaron Portzline. The center prospect
Columbus Blue Jackets News / The Hockey Writers / February 24, 2025
Blue Jackets’ Lindstrom Has Options at the NCAA Level
Cayden Lindstrom, the Columbus Blue Jackets’ fourth overall pick this past summer, reportedly has an interesting decision ahead of him in the near future. Lindstrom could be one of the first high-profile prospects to make the jump from the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) to the NCAA ranks.
Columbus Blue Jackets News / Pro Hockey Rumors / February 12, 2025
Top Blue Jackets prospect could miss 2024-25 season
The Columbus Blue Jackets have received more bad news on top prospect Cayden Lindstrom’s recovery from an offseason back injury.
Columbus Blue Jackets News / Pro Hockey Rumors / August 27, 2024
Blue Jackets star prospect ruled out for rookie camp
He is recovering from a disc herniation that cost him much of his draft year.
Columbus Blue Jackets News / Daily Faceoff / June 28, 2024
Columbus Blue Jackets select Cayden Lindstrom No. 4 overall in 2024 NHL Draft
The xx were never going to have a shot at Macklin Celebrini. But Cayden Lindstrom makes for one heck of a consolation prize up the middle. On Friday at The Sphere in Las Vegas, the Columbus Blue Jackets took the towering center in the first round of the 2024 NHL Draft, No.
NHL News / Yardbarker / June 26, 2024
Yardbarker's NHL mock draft: Intrigue surrounds top 10
Hobey Baker Award winner Macklin Celebrini has been the presumed No. 1 overall pick for close to a year now, but things could quickly get interesting with the following picks.
Columbus Blue Jackets News / NHL on ClutchPoints / June 24, 2024
Why Blue Jackets must draft Cayden Lindstrom No. 4 overall
The Columbus Blue Jackets need all the help they can get offensively, which makes Cayden Lindstrom a perfect fit for them at No. 4 overall in the NHL Draft.
Cayden Lindstrom suffered a herniated disc last season
Oh. This information, revealed by Corey Pronman, has the effect of a bombshell two weeks before the first of the next draft. And it could influence the decision of Montreal executives.
NHL News / Daily Faceoff / June 7, 2024
Top 2024 NHL Draft center Cayden Lindstrom is a natural-born athlete
BUFFALO, N.Y. – There might not be a player who needed to have a bigger NHL Draft Combine week than Cayden Lindstrom. The big, 6-foot-4 center missed most of the second half of the season with a back injury, and didn’t look like himself once he returned for the playoffs.
NHL News / Flamesnation / May 25, 2024
In the shadow of a Tigers teammate, Andrew Basha is a strong 2024 NHL Draft prospect in his own right
Since the beginning of the 2023-24 season, the scouting community has largely been in agreement on one fact: it seems pretty likely that Medicine Hat Tigers forward Cayden Lindstrom gets drafted before teammate Andrew Basha.
NHL News / Yardbarker / May 22, 2024
NHL Central Scouting compares top 2024 draft prospect to Hall of Famer
Cayden Lindstrom likely won’t have to wait long to hear his name called in the 2024 NHL Draft.
Cayden Lindstrom: medical reports to be sent to all 32 teams
There’s no doubt that Cayden Lindstrom is one of the best players in the next NHL draft. He’s big, imposing and has good hands. He’s got it all, so much so that he’sbeen compared to none other than Eric Lindros.
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