You keep Yandle if you truly believe you are a serious Cup contender. Keeping Yandle to maintain the status quo and be first or second round fodder is a foolish mismanagement of assets.
If we had never traded for Yandle to begin with (in combo with a few moves that easily should have been made) we might be cup contenders and continue to have very few holes for the next few years with Miller, Brass, Zuke, Duke, Hags, Step, Hayes, Lindberg, fast, kreider, nash (Buch next year?). Instead of Hags and Duke for the next few YEARS (again a combo of moves including the Yandle trade is involved here) we have a LD for our third pair for another few months
That's why I'm more than fine with trading him this year if it means arming our future so that 2 years from now we are on the cusp of another great wave of contention which really is not more than a player or two out of reach. If we trade him it has to be for a piece that helps. Can't say enough about how short sighted and idiotic that Yandle trade was.
If we re-sign Yandle that's great too but then Staal absolutely has to go which I'm fine with. Can't see how they can possibly fit both and keep all the forwards that they absolutely have to re-sign. Ultimately for age reasons I prefer Yandle just be traded and predict that if we do not trade him it will be an idiotic failure of epic proportions (as was the MSL trade and the Clowe trade...not as epic of a proportion for the last one). Though I'd love to be wrong