12 games and that’s it. After two extremely successful seasons in Dynamo Moscow, Jaškin envisioned how he would follow up his performances in the KHL in the NHL, where in the past he already worked in St. Louis and Washington. But after a November foul by Marko Borowiecki and a serious knee injury, he only had a dozen starts for Arizona and one assist.
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It will not add another number. “I waited for proposals from the NHL, but in the end none of them suited me and I decided to negotiate with SKA. The negotiations took quite a long time,” admits Yaškin, who was also sought after by Magnitogorsk, Yekaterinburg and Ufa.
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In the end, he nodded to St. Petersburg, where he will earn 60 million rubles (24 million crowns), with performance bonuses even up to 100 million rubles (over 43 million crowns).
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“I’m close to the hockey he plays – it’s exactly the style of play that suits me. Plus a young and fighting team. St. Petersburg has a very promising team that has only one goal – the cup. We will strive for that, I am ready to achieve the highest goals together with the club,” says the native of Omsk and a member of Slavia, who represented the Czech Republic at the 2018 and 2019 World Cups as well as the World Cup six years ago.
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He is expected to join his new employer in the coming days after he passes a medical after arriving in Russia. In theory, he could pull the SKA jersey over his head for the first time as early as next week at the tournament in Sochi.
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He is not worried about losing fitness after the injury. “For seven months I was in the process of rehabilitation and constant training on dry land and then on ice. I think I won’t have to catch up much, everything will be fine,” he concluded.
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