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Tuesday, October 19, 1999
Sens stand firm on Yashin
LOS ANGELES (CP) -- Losing their last two games won't melt the Senators' resolve against yielding to centre Alexei Yashin's demand for a new contract.Yashin, who ranked sixth in scoring last season with 94 points, has refused to honour the final year of his contract and is working out in Switzerland.
A dispute is brewing over whether Yashin will remain under contract to the Senators if he misses the entire season, with the NHL strongly backing the club and the NHLPA supporting Yashin.
"Next year, we had budgeted a substantial raise for Alexei Yashin," Roy Mlakar, the Senators' president and chief executive officer, told the Los Angeles Times. "Not this year. His contract is over next year. I sent a memo to Mark Gandler (Yashin's agent) to hold a great farewell party when he's 31 (and can be an unrestricted free agent). He picked the wrong owner and the wrong team. ...
"I've had great conversations with his agent. The fact is, in the U.S. and Canada, we honour a contract. In Russia, maybe they don't. We do. And we budget what our expenses are. I never planned on Alexei making a penny more than what he is due this season. With Wade Redden and Magnus Arvedson, you budget what it takes to sign them because they were Group 2 free agents. Alexei is under contract. That's what his contract is. I can't change it."
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