The Career of Alexei Yashin

I have discussed the player before, but was surprised I never made a career video on him.

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[JohnnyBuschi]

I worked for the Nassau Coliseum and the Islanders when he was there. Hands down one of THE NICEST players to ever come through that building. Always smiling, always spoke to you like a friend even if you were a stranger. The same for his girlfriend, Carol. Sometimes she brought us hot chocolate on cold, snowy nights.

[Nikkerman]

He's so devisive even people like me who never watched him play know his name

[badmtrfngr]

It was Yashin, not Daigle that was the proposed centerpiece of the Yzerman to Ottawa talks in the early 90s. Yashin was really good. He would have 1000gp and 1000 points if he doesn't lose 1 and half seasons to lockout and 1 to sitting out/suspended.

[vincentmarinelli]

How about Ron Francis next? I checked, you’d haven’t done one for him yet. Think you only mentioned him as a player in your greatest passers video years ago. Deserves more of a deep dive, please do it for this lifelong Canes fan.

[nadaduo]

Daige said he was glad was drafted 1st because no one remembers number 2

Number 2 was Chris Pronger lol

[stephenhigham]

I was at the Sens alumni game in 2017, and it felt good for fans to cheer for Yashin when he stepped on the ice. Sort of a cathartic, water under the bridge sort of thing.

[hpcarlos]

As a Ny islanders fan
i never hated him, he Paired well with Micheal Peca those first 3 years, etc …….

[theomega]

My first experience with Yashin was something else…

My grandpa loved hockey but would get so mad when I would bring up the idea Nashville should acquire Yashin in exchange for Legwand, Upshall, and Finley the goalie we took in 1999.

But to me, even as his numbers stand now I think I would have preferred having Yashin. No telling how that changes the Radulov situation later, and he would have been on that team with Kariya and Forsberg and Arnott.

I get the attitude part I do, but I remember as a fan being so down in the dumps because we couldn’t develop a 30 goal guy to save our lives.

[dtown]

I remember seeing the Sens play an exhibition game in Halifax. It was the very first game after he came back from the contract dispute. The crowd booed him everytime he touched the puck. And it was a pro-Ottawa crowd too.

[theblindjedi]

Maybe do a career video on Alexandre Daigle next? He is kind of connected and one of the biggest draft busts in history.

[pet]

Yashin was one of the best scoring Players of the dead puck Periode. From 1996 Till 2004 He was one of best forwards of the NHL. IT was the Most brutal time to be a scorer. Started to getting intrested in NHL Hockey Back then. Huge diffence to nowadays. Really liked Yashin because of His Performance in the hard Core nhl . He also was one of the View Russins nhl Stars who showed up in IIHF world Cups. His behavior of course was very Strange. I totally get, why poeple dont Like him.But i Always found him strangly cool. He once was proudly stating / bragging about His Martial arts skills. Yashin ist one of my Personal Favorits of the Clutch n Grab aera. The coolest time in NHL history. Didn Not perform in the Playoffs, but the hole Team Just ( Ottawa )was not ready. The islanders we're a looser Team when He arrived. With yashin they became at least a Team that was regulary in the Play offs. Yasin👍

[derekbird]

I'm a life long Ottawa fan and I agree with everything you've said about the Ottawa side of things and how the fan base generally feels

[Zamppa]

I remember Yashin being the first very big name alongside with Lindros who refused to play if this and that didn't go exactly as he wanted.

[griffstah]

I grew up in Ottawa, still live here to this day. As a kid of 7 er 8 I stood outside a local rink the Sens were practicing at that day. All the players walked passed me only one of the players stopped to say hi and sign my sweater, Yashin. Alexi Yashin was a good man, people got the wrong idea about him.

[Buffalosabskis]

Was old enough to see him play when I was 8 and the Sabres swept the Sens in 99. I mostly remember the Rick famous call “Robbed Yashin blind!!!!”. My older brother that I shared a room with was into all NHL players as I was, but I had a strict rule of only Sabres posters. Well my brother broke this by having a Yashin poster. I think I ripped it down in high school when he scored on the Sabres in a regular season game. Great player though

[lvhatrick]

He played for the Las Vegas Thunder for a few games in a lockout season.

[victorm]

To think the Islanders could have had on the same team:
Spezza
Chara
Luongo
Heatly (which they chose to draft Di Pietro instead)
That would have been a sick team!

[Ohhelmno]

I actually loved Yashin. Him, Pavel Bure, and Paul Coffey were my favorite non Red Wings when I was growing up… maybe because they were rarely a threat to us growing up and they were still great but weren’t gonna knock us out in the playoffs or anything most of the time. I started watching in 92-93, so the Coffey was no longer in Pittsburgh, then when he came to Detroit I lost my little mind, and unfortunately I was upset when he left, even though Shanahan helped us win the cup, finally, the year he was traded for him.

[steveg]

Yashin came to my car wash in Kanata when I was a kid in his red BMW. Nice guy. But I was annoyed at his contract issues and stories with the donations and taxes. Was happy when he went to NY. the name Daigle still gives me hives.

[cliffordangus]

Thank you! I was talking to my buddy who's an Islanders fan about Yashin yesterday!