Earlier today at the NHL Fanhouse, I noted Alexei Yashin's impending departure from Long Island. Now, over at Tarik's place, he's asking a very dangerous question:
Yashin, when motivated, can still be one of the game's best centers. The Caps need a first line center.So here is the question of the day: Should the Caps get Gandler on the phone (of course, after the agent gets that letter from the Islanders)?
Can we really be talking about seeing the Caps acquire a player who another team will eventually spend more than $17 million just to get him to go away? Are we perhaps looking for some reverse-Jagr mojo, thinking that the karmic wheel will turn, allowing the Caps to get some extra mileage out of a player the rest of the league has already called the most overrated in hockey?
Yashin won't be 34 until November, so he's still got a lot of hockey left in him if he wants to play. It's just that too often over the last five seasons, he's played hockey as if he'd rather be doing something else.
The answer is no.
