'The fact that he's playing again is a win' Cayden Lindstrom adapting well at Michigan State

EAST LANSING, Michigan – Eighteen months off the ice will change any player. For someone wired like Cayden Lindstrom, it was a war with one's own patience.

The fourth-overall pick from 2024 missed pretty well a season and a half with a back injury that never really went away until it finally did. It was the kind of injury that messes with your confidence, rhythm, and conditioning. Everything. He spent that time working where he could, waiting, and likely overthinking. 

That’s not his game. He’s built to attack on instinct.

“It’s not going to come back with a snap of your fingers,” Lindstrom said. “It’s going to take some time and some working on. But I think I’ve done a decent job of maintaining it and trying to get better every day.”

That sentiment was echoed by every MSU player I spoke to. G