Columbus Blue Jackets Draft Charlie Elick 36th Overall & Blue Jackets Choose Lindstrom Over Trade Packages
Plus a look at Cayden Lindstrom who the Blue Jackets drafted 4th overall.
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Columbus Blue Jackets Draft Charlie Elick 36th Overall
June 29, 2024 by Jim Bay
Elick is the son of former professional hockey player Mickey Elick. The elder Elick was an eighth-round pick by the New York Rangers in 1992 but never played in the NHL. Instead, he spent much of his pro career in Europe. He was born in Austria and moved to Calgary when he was six years old. Charlie is a right-shot defenseman listed at 6-foot-3 and 198 pounds…
Blue Jackets Chose Lindstrom Over Multiple Trade Packages
June 29, 2024 by Mark Scheig
The big question coming into Round 1 of the 2024 NHL Draft was where would the draft actually start? Everyone knew who the San Jose Sharks were taking. Most folks knew that the Chicago Blackhawks were considering two players max.
The Anaheim Ducks pick was pretty hard to pin down. The betting markets exploded earlier Friday when Zeev Buium’s name was in third-overall rumors. They still stunned most of the hockey world with their selection of Beckett Sennecke. However, trading the third pick was really never a thing…
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Blue Jackets Draft Cayden Lindstrom 4th Overall
June 28, 2024 by Eugene Helfrick
If you were to build a perfect top-10 pick at the NHL Entry Draft, you might end up developing Cayden Lindstrom and his 6-foot-3, 210-pound frame. Lindstrom has every intangible that NHL general managers spend their careers trying to find. He’s a big, smart, fast, and skilled centerman who has a toolkit that’s easy to project to the professional levels of hockey…