Alexei Valeryevich Yashin (Алексей Валерьевич Яшин, Aleksej Valer'jevič Jašin) is a professional hockey player, born in Sverdlovsk, USSR, now Yekaterinburg, Russia, on November 5, 1973. He gained his initial fame after being the first ever draft pick of the expansion Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (2nd overall in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft).

Ottawa Senators, 1993-2001

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After remaining in Russia for the 1992-93 season with the Dynamo Moscow, Yashin arrived in Ottawa for the 1993-94 NHL season, the same year as Ottawa's other touted young phenom, Alexandre Daigle. Yashin soon eclipsed Daigle as the team's brightest young star, scoring 79 points in his rookie season and earning a nomination for the Calder Trophy.

Subsequent seasons saw him emerge as a superstar, helping Ottawa make the playoffs for the first time in 1997. In 1998, he scored a key overtime goal against the New Jersey Devils that helped the Senators secure their first ever playoff series victory.

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