Who Do The Columbus Blue Jackets Draft At 4th In The Locked On NHL Mock Draft?
the annual locked on mock draft is in and we’re going to be talking about who I picked for the Blue Jackets at Fourth overall plus the monsters are in a game seven and have a chance to reverse sweep we’re going to talk about all of that on today’s locked on Blue Jackets you’re locked on Blue Jacket your daily podcast on the Columbus Blue Jackets part of the locked on podcast Network your team Team every day hello and welcome to lock on Blue Jackets part of the lock on podcast Network your team every day I am as always your host Jay Foster here to give you the Good the Bad and the Ugly about your favorite team and mine the Columbus Blue Jackets before we get started I want to thank everyone for making this your first list of the day every single day locks on Blue Jacket is free and available on all podcast platforms and over on YouTube I also left that you know this episode is brought to you by Game Time download the game time app create an account and use the code locked on NHL for $20 off your first purchase terms do apply um I said yesterday’s episode that we can talk about Eric Branson today and I changed my mind because uh the lock on Network dropped their um official mock draft for the upcoming NHL entry draft uh so what this is is every host of the show picks who they would take if they were on the clock H so I picked a fourth overall because that’s the only first round pick the blue jacket to have uh as of right now and um we’re going to talk about that we’re going to talk about the the guys that went just before the guy I picked we’re going to talk a little about the guy I picked and we’re going to talk a little bit about like How likely it is that he ends up being a blue jacket and um some other kind of honorable mentions and what happens if the draft order changes things like that obviously there’s been some Rumblings I talked about this on Twitter a couple of days ago of that um maybe Chicago is not going to take Ian de me off second overall which is where he went in the mock draft so let’s uh let’s get into it shall we um I picked Kaden Lindstrom for the blue jacket at Fourth overall mlin celebrini went first obviously Iva deito went second to Chicago Aram linov went third to the Anaheim Ducks so really it came down to for me anyway it came down to Kaden Lindstrom or TJ gindler um TJ gindler is a player that has grown on me massively over the last kind of month month and a half of doing you know some scouting viewings myself talking to a lot of people but I couldn’t pass up the chance to have a player like Kaden Lindstrom join the organization I think he’s perfect for what this organization wants which is they have another guy that could play center he played center um all of this year missed some time with injury uh so only had 42 points in 61 games for the medison Hat Tigers this season um which I think has has scared a lot of people off um he had a back injury and I think he broke his hand or his ankle or he broke something broke a bone as well um and so like people are kind of a little bit worried about that injury like a back injury especially sometimes you just don’t ever really recover from them or it takes a long time to really properly recover from them um you know look at for example Ryan Murray who’s been who was plagued with back issues basically his entire career you know um but that being said I’m still really really high on Kaden Lindstrom as a player um he’s got size he’s got physicality so I think fans fans are going to love him um he’s very much an an Adam fanelli type player I don’t think he’s quite as good as fanelli but he is in that mold of you know a an old-fashioned old school Power Forward but perfect for the modern game um he’s not great at skating like he’s fine he’s perfectly acceptable it’s not one of his strengths but he has the hands he’s got the speed he’s got the physicality like I said he’s got the size he’s I think 6′ three uh 210 PBS probably that’ll that’ll change a little bit obviously he’s uh just turned 18 I believe or no he’s yes he’s just turned 18 in February um so you know he’s got some growing to do still a little bit but he just every time I watch him I’m like wow this this guy is is exciting he’s skilled he’s big like I I am on the record as being a lover of small fast forwards you know we talk about it all the time that’s the locked on Blue Jackets brand um K lstr is not that but what he is is the perfect addition to Adam fantilli as kind of the start of oh not the start of but you know you add a guy like Lindstrom in with Ken Johnson Adam fan Tilly Gavin Brindley um Cole singer like that to me is a really really exciting mix he offers some of the same things as fan Tilly but he’s got a little bit more physicality in his game he’s got a little bit more um of a mean streak in his game which is is really enticing um I don’t think the Blue Jackets necessar people talk about the Blue Jackets getting bullied all the time and saying that they need to toughen up and stuff and I don’t necessarily agree with that or believe that that’s like a thing um but when you watch Kaden Lindstrom play it’s really easy to imagine what he’s going to look like at you know 2324 fully grown fully integrated into the NHL he’s probably a little bit more of a project than fanelli was he almost definitely should go back to medicon hat um in the WHL next season um for his d+1 year this is not a guy that I expect to be in the NHL um in October but looking at who was available to me and the draft and you know we covered this a little bit at the start celebrini demidov Le shanov all gone Kan Lindstrom for me was a really easy pick at Fourth overall like I said there were a couple of other guys um that that I could have like TJ G was a guy that I looked at um I’m still a big Berkeley katton fan I know he’s kind of dropped in in rankings and I believe he went 10th overall eventually in the uh in the mark draft he was a guy that I looked at I’m a big Z buam fan uh out of uh Denver University and had a really really great uh draft eligible season with them like there wasn’t really a bad option to pick at Fourth but when it came down to it I looked at what this team needed and it really kind of came down to left defense or Center and I picked Center because I think the Blue Jackets you can never have too many centers and like you can never have too many defensemen either I feel like but if you’re like down the middle in two seasons time is fanelli Lindstrom cyinder vov that is really really exciting for me and so I came into this Mark draft knowing that I was probably going to take a center and I feel very very uh grateful that Lindstrom was still there you know shout out to the Ducks for taking aam lean off which we’ll talk about that in uh in a little bit here but that’s kind of my my reasoning for um why I took Lind at Fourth overall uh we’re going to take a quick break when we get back uh I want to talk a little bit about How likely this is 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to it and I believe it was not super accurate in terms of the Blue Jackets just because the Ducks decided to go off the board um basically immediately and so that kind of threw everything um I ended up taking Leo Carson third overall in the mark draft last year obviously he went second in real life and then we got Adam fania third which you love to see it um this year there’s there there’s Whispers there’s Rumblings that you know and I demidov has kind of been painted into that second overall spot with Chicago um put demidov and badad together and just kind of watch them go you know um now I’m hearing or you know lots of people are hearing this is not like a me specific thing I’m not you know this is not my Insider era or whatever um but a lot of people are hearing rumors that chicag is looking long and hard about at artam leov at second overall this is interesting because that means that the ducks have a decision to make do they pass on to mov and get a defenseman which I think is what they want um you know it’s it’s kind of it’s third overall is a weird place to decide whether you want to go best player available or organizational need like for me in the top five you go bless best player available regardless of of basically anything unless you know you are in Desperate all out need of something you know um so do the Ducks take toov and add that incredible impact forward to an already strong group or do they try and replace the defenseman that they traded away in Jamie drale to get Kur goer who has filled a gap in forward I guess it depends on whether they’re keeping Trevor zis around as well there’s a lot of a lot of organizational question marks for the darks kind of like there are organ ational question marks for the blue jacket but I could see a case where celebrini goes first overall leov goes second Anton salv goes third and he was a guy that was pegged into many people’s Blue Jackets fourth overall mock draft pick um those have kind of died down recently which I think is interesting and I’m I’m curious to know whether that’s based on the new GM coming in what Don woodell likes um what he’s thinking about in in the draft or not but there is very much a a situation or a scenario where the Blue Jackets gonna have to choose between Iva demidov and Kaden Lindstrom and I genuinely don’t know which way they will go I think again it comes down to best player available Ivan toov is a better player than Kaden Lindstrom that’s just that’s that’s just true however do the Blue Jackets want someone who can play center and Wing in in Caden instrum or do they want an insane Russian forward to add to their group of of strong Russian forward and to get that Winger for fanelli and then you know demidov fanelli Brindley as a line should put fear into many many NHL teams or do you go lindström and then have that onew punch of fanan Lindstrom down the middle and then oh when you’re done with those guys you play against cylinder you play against ronov like having Center depth with in this organization is something that’s really really inticing at this point I think and a lot of people are saying that you know they need to go for size the could have enough smaller fast forwards which is you know demidov is is definitely in that kind of Brindley D um Malatesta mold of being smaller and energetic I think he’s better than all of those players but I could see the organization being like well we have enough of those guys let’s take a guy like Lindstrom and then we don’t have to worry about the center IED position we don’t have to worry about the top six that’s that’s it we’re done we can keep building um obviously there’s the argument there of well demov might not come to the NHL ever I think that’s bull quite frankly um people talk about this every single year and every single like when was the last time a Russian Pro just didn’t come especially one that was drafted as highly as you know people were were ringing the hand over mitov uh last season and he apparently could be in Philadelphia as early as October um Mitch idov excuse me has I think one year left on his deal and has been talking you know publicly about how much he wanted to come to the NHL so like could he get kind of coer into a new contract with with the KHL obviously yes but I’m not worried about that and frankly anyone the Blue Jackets draft at Fourth they are not going to be in the lineup in October like it does like I don’t think it matters whether they take salv whether they take Lindstrom whether they take ainla whether they take um demidov whether they take senica like it doesn’t matter it truly doesn’t matter none of these guys are nhr ready you are not going to have another piece in the lineup in October that comes from this draft so it’s going to be at least a year whether you take lindst whether you take to meet up it’s going to be at least one season until you get either of those guys so like you can’t draft it you can’t draft looking for someone to play in October at this point like the talker that celebra might not play in the NHL next year like he’s thinking about going back to be for another season which is fully within his rights and I I think that you know that could be a really uh that could be a good thing for the Sharks if I’m being honest um but if it comes down to it would I pick Lindstrom or would I pick demidov and I still think I still think I might go demidov just because that much skill is hard to pass up but then I think about Kaden Lindstrom and how much fun I had watching Kaden Lindstrom earlier this season and how kind of glowingly everyone talks about Lindstrom as a player and just that just really exites me in a way that like it’s kind of a similar thing to fanelly again I don’t think he’s as good of a player as fanelli but and again like with uh David jurich as well I have kind of a similar feeling about Lindstrom as I have about EUR which is that you just you kind of watch him play and you can see him being you can see him at 22 23 24 being an absolute monster in this league so knj reaction I think if I if they’re both available I get a phone call on during the draft it’s Donell being like hey Jay we really Val your opinion who are you taking they’re both available I think I say Lindstrom I really do and it’s going to be tough because that really means that demov is going to go to the Habs and I hate that because I don’t think the Habs should be allowed to have nice things but I just think for the for the franchise I could see Kaden Lindstrom having more of an impact on this franchise than Dean do and maybe that’ll come back to bite me but that’s uh that’s how I feel about that um um that’s kind of what I’ve got for for for mock draft stuff um I wanted to talk about something else that’s happening uh and that is in at the time of recording this in about two and a half hours uh the CL monsters will be playing in game seven of the Eastern Conference Final in the CER Cup playoffs and I 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and now it’s the playing field is is reset it is whoever wins the game tonight is going to the CER Cup Final I’m extremely stressed about it uh but I’m also really excited um I just watched if you haven’t seen them yet um the Cleveland monsters and the Blue Jackets have been putting together the special Cleveland monster edition of behind the battle um so after every I believe it’s after every win that they’ve done in the playoffs so far is they’ve done like a little highlight package they’ve done um like behind the scenes stuff um footage of of the win and the locker room afterwards and it just I got really really hype uh so I’m really really excited for this game um the monsters have I think exceeded every single person’s expectations um they went you know they they lost the opening game of the playoffs to the B senators and then won the next three they swept the Rochester America excuse me they swept the Syracuse Crunch in the second round 3 nothing we thought it would be a short Series against the Hershey Bears when they went down three nothing there especially that kind of I think they lost six2 in game three in in the first game in Cleveland which was a tough one and then they’ve turned it around they’ve won games four five and six the Hershey Bears haven’t lost four games in a row all season they hadn’t lost back-to-back games in regulation All Season until games four and five of the playoffs for um dis round against the monsters they hadn’t lost at home in these playoffs until Monday night when the monsters beat them so like the monsters just keep doing all of these first things to the Hershey Bears and now everything is on the line um the monsters have gotten they’ve gotten some luck here um the the Hershey have had some bad luck they’ve had some injury uh news some injury updates whereas the moner have kind of had guys back Brendan GA played I think in game two of the series against the Hershey Bears and that was his first game of this playoff series of this playoff run entirely um they got Jake Christensen back in game six um not injury related but getting D matuk in for game four and then the monster went three and0 they haven’t lost I’m going to knock on wood here they haven’t lost with denok in the lineup yet um believe he assisted on the game winner uh in game six he I also think assisted on the gamewinner in game five as well um looks fantastic out there like if you haven’t seen any of the monsters playoff run then tonight is the game to watch it’s really really exciting uh the monsters could be the first the fourth team in AHL history to reverse sweep a team uh it’s literally only happened three times before and I’m going to pull up uh a tweet from Dean Weinheimer uh friend of the show um it hasn’t happened since 2013 against the uh excuse me for the the wibur SC and Penguins uh reverse swept uh the conference semi-finals in goal for the Penguins during that series funly enough Cleveland gending coach Brad t uh it was a reverse sweep over the Providence Bruins uh then before that it hadn’t happened since 1989 for the adarand Red Wings and then before that was the 1960 Rochester Americans so hasn’t happened in over a decade the monsters could be the first team to reverse sweep in a seven game series since the Penguins in 2013 that’s really really exciting I’ve been going back and forth all day basically about yeah I think they win it no I think the Bears pull it out of the the bag no I think the monsters win it so like I really have no I was going to do some fun predictions and stuff and I have none I genuinely have no idea which way this game is going to go like it could be a blowout one way it could be a blowout the other way it could be a 2-1 overtime win after seven overtimes um it there’s just the it’s so exciting it’s so exciting I love playoff hockey I love game sevens but also my blood pressure is so high right now um so if you want to actually come and uh hang out during game seven for the monsters and the Bears uh over at the C at times we are going to be going live and doing a live game watch along uh so it’ll be me Dean Weinheimer uh who you know and love she does monsters Mondays with me here um who we’ll have on the show on Monday actually after the after the conclusion of this series um and then Andrea ronaldi who covers the grand rppers Griffins and the Chicago walls will also be there and then we’ll have our uh reporter on the ground Cory swart will be uh hopping in he’s going to be at Giant Center in Hershey for this game so come and hang out come and watch that uh we’ll have some fun and hopefully we’ll get to watch our monsters win with you all that’s all I’ve got for today uh tomorrow I believe we are going to do uh a scouting profile a prospect profile I’m not sure who uh I want to say uh Jesse pinan is is next on my list so we’ll be doing his Prospect profile tomorrow and uh hopefully you you guys come and uh come and hang out with that thank you for listening to uh to this episode for making it your first listen of the day every single day Lo and Blue Jackets continues to be free and available on all podcast platforms we over on YouTube and on sirusxm uh I have BJ Foster you can find me on Twitter Ator jaob Foster j k o b f r s r you can find the show at lore Bluejack if you have comments questions criticisms you can email me at lockon bluejackets gmail.com and uh until tomorrow make sure you stay locked on
The Locked On Mock Draft is IN, and the Blue Jackets are taking Cayden Lindstrom! I break down his scouting report, give my reasons for drafting him, and then look at how likely it is he’s available at 4th on the day in Vegas! Then I look at the Cleveland Monsters, who have a do or die Game 7 against the Hershey Bears tonight, and if they can be the first team to reverse sweep a best of 7 series in the AHL since 2013!
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