Yandle was a fourth-round pick of the Coyotes in 2005 and holds the NHL ironman streak, playing 989 consecutive games. He finishes his career with 619 points (103G / 516A) in 1109 career NHL games.
Yandle was a healthy scratch for the last two games but he will suit up on the third pairing on Tuesday. Yandle will start a new ironman streak, replacing Kevin Connauton in the lineup.
Scratching Yandle snaps his ironman streak at 989 games and makes room for the recently signed Ronnie Attard to make his NHL debut against the Maple Leafs. The Flyers are prioritizing getting their young players minutes over Yandle's streak.
Yandle had two years left on a seven-year contract that carried a $6.35M AAV cap-hit. Buying out his contract will save the Panthers just over $4.0M in cap-space in 2021-22, $958.3K in 2022-23 and cost them $1.242M in 2024 and 2025 (per PuckPedia). The 34-year-old defenseman has not missed a regular-season game since 2009 and sits second on the all-time Consecutive Games Played in NHL History list at 922 games.
Yandle began to fall out of favour as training camp progressed, ultimately leading to him practicing with the second group for the last few days. Yandle currently has the longest active "Iron Man" streak in the NHL at 866 games, which will come to an end if he sits on Sunday. With Yandle expected to sit, Gustav Forsling and Radko Gudas are expected to skate on the third pair and Aaron Ekblad will QB the top PP unit.
Yandle is in danger of missing the Panthers’ season opener after suffering an upper-body injury in Saturday’s preseason game. The Panthers are saying his is “probable” to return next week, so keep an eye on him heading into the regular season.
Yandle was expected to miss an extended period of time, but was in the lineup on Tuesday and will be game-time decision again tonight. Yandle played 23:57 in Philadelphia, so it appears as if he is fine, so expect him to be in the lineup tonight.
Yandle is testing his foot in warmups, but it remains unclear if he will be able to go tonight after leaving yesterday's game with a foot injury.
Yandle left Monday's game after being hit by an Aaron Ekblad shot and was expected to miss some time, but head coach Tom Rowe announced that Yandle will take part in warmups tonight before they make a decision on whether or not he will play.
Yandle left Monday’s game after playing just 4:51 and did not return. After the game, Panthers’ head coach Tom Rowe said that Yandle will be out for “a while.” Yandle has appeared in 577 consecutive games, a streak that will come to an end on Tuesday. Look for Dylan McIlrath to draw back into the lineup for Florida.
Florida acquired Yandle’s rights from the Rangers a few days back and wasted no time inking the 29-year-old defenseman to a seven year contract. Handle has not missed a game in the last seven seasons and has averaged 10 goals and 40 assists (50 points) per 82 games over that stretch. He becomes the highest paid player in the Panthers organization.
Yandle is set to become an unrestricted free agent on July 1st. He is coming off of a 47-point season (5G / 42A) in 82 games with the Rangers and now the Panthers will get 11 days to try and lock up the 29-year-old blueliner before the rest of the league starts throwing money at him.
Yandle missed the morning skate before Game 3, but still played 15:49 and registered his second assist of the series. Since being acquired by the Rangers, he has two goals and 11 assists (13 points) in 23 games.
Yandle missed the Rangers morning skate, but coach Alain Vigneault said that Yandle will still be in the lineup on Monday. Yandle has one assist and four shots on goal in the first two games of the series.
After being acquired from the Coyotes last night, he will make his Rangers debut tonight vs. the Predators. He is expected to start his Rangers career with Kevin Klein, but head coach Alain Vigneault is expected to mix those two up with Marc Staal and Dan Boyle until he finds a combination that works. Yandle has 41 points (4G / 37A) and a league-worst minus-32 rating in 63 games with the Coyotes.