Has to be wang

Posted by gretzky_to_lemieux on 07/20/12 at 09:16 AM ET

Holland’s plan “C”

Posted by TheFreak on 07/20/12 at 10:25 AM ET

Holland’s plan “C”

Posted by TheFreak on 07/20/12 at 08:25 AM ET

Yashin-Datsyuk-Semin…the Russian 3

and Brunner-Zetterberg-Filpulla…the Nordic Connection

or Franzen-Zetterberg-Samuelsson

Kronwall-Ericsson

Gustavsson…the Swedish 6

Posted by YzermanZetterberg on 07/20/12 at 12:14 PM ET

Anyone who signs this guy should immeadiatly be subject to urine/blood tests as well as a brain scan!

Posted by Faux Rumors from Globally- Here, there, Everywhere on 07/20/12 at 12:19 PM ET

I have a Yashin poster on the wall in my office. This, of course, is intended as humour.

Hopefully his return won’t mean the joke is on me.

Posted by Da lil Guy from Ottawa on 07/20/12 at 12:26 PM ET

Holland’s plan “C”

I tried to laugh at that…

Posted by Garth on 07/20/12 at 01:14 PM ET

if “C” means crazy, then I understand.

Posted by NIVO from underpants gnome village on 07/20/12 at 01:19 PM ET

By “concrete” I assume it means he got a union job on Long Island.

Posted by shazam88 from SoCal on 07/20/12 at 02:10 PM ET

Isn’t it a little bit early in the off-season to be talking of the annual Yashin return to the NHL? Or is his agent needing to get this out early so that he has leverage with a KHL team in the event there is an NHL lockout?

Posted by hockey1919 from mid-atlantic on 07/20/12 at 03:41 PM ET

By “concrete” I assume it means he got a union job on Long Island.

Posted by shazam88 from SoCal on 07/20/12 at 12:10 PM ET

I shouldn’t laugh, but I lol’d and rofl’d.

Posted by SYF from the Flood on 07/20/12 at 09:20 PM ET

So I looked at some of the videos of this guy on youtube because I wondered why (while yes, I knew the name, who doesn’t?) I couldn’t remember much of anything extraordinary related to his name.

After maybe 3 minutes, I know why I couldn’t remember much. This guy was paid that much for what, 3 good seasons?

Yeah yeah, shut up about Franzen.

Posted by mrfluffy from Long Beach on 07/20/12 at 09:40 PM ET

Yeah yeah, shut up about Franzen.

Franzen hasn’t had six 30-goal seasons.

He’s had one.

Posted by Garth on 07/21/12 at 01:44 AM ET

Yashin Has A “Concrete” offer

There’s a Jersey/Lamoriello/Vido Corleone joke in this headline somewhere.

Posted by larry from pitt on 07/21/12 at 03:51 PM ET

So I looked at some of the videos of this guy on youtube because I wondered why (while yes, I knew the name, who doesn’t?) I couldn’t remember much of anything extraordinary related to his name.

Posted by mrfluffy from Long Beach on 07/20/12 at 07:40 PM ET

Yashin may have had a decent NHL season or two post-lockout (I honestly don’t remember), but he was very much a pre-lockout player. The type of guy who was big enough that hooking and holding didn’t effect him the same way it did for a lot of other guys. Since the game was slower, his lack of footspeed wasn’t an issue. It would be a serious issue now, imo, particularly since he’s almost guaranteed to have lost a step or two off the average to below-average wheels he showed in his prime.

Posted by larry from pitt on 07/21/12 at 03:56 PM ET

Franzen hasn’t had six 30-goal seasons.

He’s had one.

Posted by Garth on 07/20/12 at 11:44 PM ET

And Franzen is paid about half of what Yashin was.

Posted by mrfluffy from Long Beach on 07/21/12 at 04:27 PM ET