Alexei Valeryevich Yashin

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IIHF Hall of Fame , 2020
Alexei Yashin
Date of birth 5th November 1973
place of birth Sverdlovsk , Russian SFSR
size 198 cm
Weight 95 kg
position center
number # 19
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1992 , 1st round, 2nd position
Ottawa Senators
Career stations
until 1991 Dinamo-Energija Yekaterinburg
1991-1993 HK Dynamo Moscow
1993-2001 Ottawa Senators
2001-2007 New York Islanders
2007-2009 Yaroslavl locomotive
2009-2011 SKA Saint Petersburg
2011–2012 HK CSKA Moscow

Alexei Valeryevich Yashin ( Russian Алексей Валерьевич Яшин ; born November 5, 1973 in Sverdlovsk , Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey player . The Center denied in his 1990 lasting until 2012 professional career, among others, more than 800 games for the Ottawa Senators and New York Islanders in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Senators had selected him in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft in second position, before he led both teams as team captain in the course . With the Russian national team , Yashin won the gold medal at the 1993 World Championships and the silver medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics . In 2020 he was also elected into the IIHF Hall of Fame .

Career

Alexei Yashin began his career in 1990 with Dinamo-Energija Yekaterinburg before moving to HK Dynamo Moscow in the Russian Super League in 1991 . The following year, he was picked second in the first round of the 1992 NHL Entry Draft by the Ottawa Senators , making him the first player the Senators have ever drafted . Yashin stayed in Moscow for another year, but in the summer of 1993 he came to Ottawa.

He played an excellent 1993/94 season at the side of another talent named Alexandre Daigle , scored 79 points and was nominated for the Calder Memorial Trophy as the best rookie . He continued his good performances and slowly became a real superstar. In 1997 he reached the playoffs for the first time with the Ottawa Senators and in 1998 he scored one of the important goals that led to the Senators reaching the second round for the first time. The 1998/99 season was the high point of his career. He was promoted to team captain, received a Hart Memorial Trophy nomination for Most Valuable Player, and narrowly missed the Maurice Richard Trophy as the league's top scorer.

What happened off the ice was almost as sensational as his performance on the ice. Often there were quarrels about his contract. Yashin did not play the beginning of the 1995/96 season with the Senators, but in his home country at HK CSKA Moscow . He protested against the fact that he earned less than Alexandre Daigle. He justified his anger by saying that he performed much better than Daigle. Even so, many fans of the Senators turned their backs on Yashin.

After the 1998/99 season the climax was reached by another contract dispute. Jaschin's contract ran for over a year, but he refused to play for the Senators and requested that he be transferred to another team. He put his plan into action and did not play in the National Hockey League that season , instead he coached the EHC Kloten . The Senators' management said he was breaching his contract, and the NHL got them right. He had to play another season in Ottawa. This dispute led to the loss of about three million US dollars in salary, the captaincy and the respect of the fans. He got the nickname "Alexei Cashin".

In 1998, he announced that he would donate $ 1 million to the National Arts Center . When it became known that one of Yashin's stipulations was that the National Arts Center transfer $ 425,000 to Yashin's parents as a "consultancy fee" for non-existent services, the donation was refrained from. When the press found out the details of why the donation failed, its popularity dropped rapidly.

In the summer of 2001 he was transferred to the New York Islanders and received a sensational ten-year contract that should bring him a total of 87.5 million US dollars.

With Jashin, the Islanders reached the playoffs in 2001/02 after seven unsuccessful years. This succeeded in 2003 and 2004, but you could never survive the first round. In addition, Jashin could no longer match the achievements of his time in Ottawa. He continued to perform well and solidly, but that wasn't enough for a superstar. The 2004/05 NHL season was canceled because the NHL could not agree on a new collective agreement with the teams and the players' association. Yashin took the opportunity to return to his homeland and played for Lokomotive Yaroslavl .

Yashin in the jersey of SKA Saint Petersburg

He returned in summer 2005, and a new collective agreement had been negotiated in the meantime. This contract, the NHL Collective Bargaining Agreement , brought some disadvantages for the Islanders. A salary cap of $ 39 million was set, and Jaschin's contract was cut by 24 percent as a result of the new resolutions. Nevertheless, Yashin was considered overpaid at this point and critics saw no chance of transferring him to another team because of the high salary, as the new team would have had to take over the contract concluded by the Islanders.

Before the 2005-06 season , the Islanders lost important players because their contracts expired or their careers ended. The team had to be rebuilt. Michael Peca has been transferred to Edmonton to make room for new players like Miroslav Šatan . Yashin took over the post as Peca team captain, and the press suspected that the team had been built around Yashin and that it stood and fell with its performance. At the end of the season, for the first time since joining the team in 2001, they missed the playoffs.

Yashin started the 2006/07 season in good shape but then got injured. After that, he could not build on the good performance from the beginning of the season and got very little ice age in the playoffs due to his disappointing performance. The management finally reacted to the inconstancy of Yashin in June 2007 and decided to pay off his four-year contract and to part with him. The buyout will cost the Islanders a total of $ 17.6 million.

In the weeks that followed, Yashin negotiated with several teams from the NHL, but he couldn't come to an agreement with any team. On July 20, it was finally announced that Yashin would return to Russia and play in the Super League for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl . There he was able to build on his good performances again, was the best scorer of his team with 16 goals and 27 assists, which finished fifth in the Super League after the regular season. In the 2008/09 season he made it with his team to the final of the Gagarin Cup . For the 2009/10 season was signed by league rivals SKA Saint Petersburg and played at SKA until 2011. After that he was initially without a club before he was signed by HK CSKA Moscow at the end of September of the same year . There he played his last season before ending his active career.

Yashin was named general manager of Russia's women's ice hockey national team on December 7, 2012 . He held this position until the 2014 Winter Olympics .

In 2020 the Russian was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame .

International

Yashin played in several tournaments for the Russian national team , so he took part in the World Cup of Hockey in 1996 and 2004 . In 1998, 2002 and 2006 he was part of the team that competed at the Winter Olympics . In 1998 they won the silver medal, in 2002 the bronze medal.

Achievements and Awards

International

statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
NHL: Regular season 12 850 337 444 781 401
NHL: playoffs 8th 48 11 16 27 24
KHL: main round 4th 207 63 101 164 136
KHL: playoffs 4th 30th 11 16 27 14th

Personal

Jashin has been married to actress and model Carol Alt since 2002 .

Web links

Commons : Alexei Yashin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Алексей Яшин - генеральный менеджер женской сборной ( Memento from January 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Russian)
  2. ^ Martin Merk: New job for Yashin. In: iihf.com. December 7, 2012, accessed February 15, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Yashin, Alexei Valeryevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yashin, Alexei Valeryevich; Яшин, Алексей Валерьевич (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 5th November 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Sverdlovsk , Soviet Union