JaromÃr Jágr
Jaromir Jagr (* February 15, 1972 in Kladno, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech ice hockey player in the position of right winger who stands in July 2013 in the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League contract.
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Career
Jagr began at the age of three years with the skating and made his debut at the age of 16 years for Poldi in the Czechoslovak Hockey League. During the NHL Entry Draft in 1990, he was selected in the first round in fifth place of the Pittsburgh Penguins, where he then spent eleven years of his NHL career. With the Penguins, he won the 1991 and 1992 Final after wins in the playoffs against the Minnesota North Stars or the Chicago Blackhawks the Stanley Cup.
In the following years, Jagr has become one of the strongest right- winger in the NHL. 1995 and 1998 to 2001, he won the Art Ross Trophy for the best scorer. In the 1998/99 season he won the Hart Memorial Trophy as the best player in the NHL. In 1999 and 2000 he was also awarded by the players in the NHL with the Lester B. Pearson Award. During the 1994/95 lockout season Jagr played eleven games for his hometown club HC Kladno, in addition, six for the HC Bolzano and one for the then second-rate Schalke sharks. In the game for the Sharks, he scored one goal and ten assists.
In summer 2000, Mario Lemieux returned from retirement, making the Penguins had two superstars on the team with him and Jagr. As a result, friction between the two players developed. The serious financial situation of the Penguins and the consequent impossibility of being able to pay high Jágrs Gage ahead prompted the club, Jagr on 11 July 2001 to the Washington Capitals to transfer.
The Capitals made Jagr with an annual salary of eleven million dollars to one of the highest paid NHL player. His achievements were after, however, after which he was traded to the New York Rangers finally 2003. During the NHL lockout in 2004/05 Jagr played again for his club in Kladno, before he accepted a lucrative offer from Avangard Omsk HK from Russia and won with the team the IIHF European Champions Cup in 2005.
For the season 2005/ 06 he returned to the New York Rangers. He was proposed for the sixth time for the hard Memorial Trophy and won for the third time the Lester B. Pearson Award. Jagr came into the season on 123 points and defeated so in the race for the Art Ross Trophy barely Joe Thornton, who scored two points more. The 2006/07 season Jagr played as captain of the New York Rangers and thus became the successor to Mark Messier, who retired in 2004; the captain's position was vacant since then. In the opening game of the Rangers against the Washington Capitals on October 5, 2006 after the whistle Jagr scored 29 seconds, the first goal of the season 2006/07.
In the game against the Tampa Bay Lightning on November 19, he reached the 600 - goal mark as 16 players in the NHL history. On November 21, 2006, he scored his 602nd NHL goal and has been the best European contactors in NHL history, surpassing Jari Kurri, who came to 601 gates. Jagr left the National Hockey League after the season 2007 / 08, after his contract was not renewed at Rangers and changed again to Russia to Avangard Omsk.
On 1 July 2011, he signed as a free agent a one-year contract with the Philadelphia Flyers. In July 2012, he moved to the Dallas Stars.
On February 6, 2013 Jagr scored in the 3-2 victory of his Dallas Stars over the Edmonton Oilers the game-winning hit in extra time ( overtime ) and presented with this 17 Overtime goal of his career a new NHL record. He also advanced with 668 gates before the split tenth of the best NHL goal scorers of all time. On April 2, 2013, was transferred to the Boston Bruins. For the 2013/14 season the Czech signed a one year contract with the New Jersey Devils.
Internationally
With the Czech national ice hockey team Jagr won the gold medal, 2005 and 2010 Ice Hockey World Championship at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. At the Olympic Winter Games in Turin in 2006 he won the bronze medal with the team. On February 27, 2006 Jagr announced his retirement from international football. At the Ice Hockey World Championship for Men in Switzerland in 2009, he made his comeback in the jersey of Czech and selection at the 2010 World Cup, he won the gold medal. At the World Cup 2011 Jagr won the bronze medal with the Czech team.
Awards and achievements
- 2000 Art Ross Trophy
- 2000 Lester B. Pearson Award
- 2000 NHL First All -Star Team
- 2000 Zlata Hokejka
- 2000 NHL Player of the Month for November
- 2001 NHL All-Star Game ( injury-related cancellation )
- 2001 NHL Player of the Month March
- 2001 Art Ross Trophy
- 2001 NHL First All -Star Team
- 2002 NHL All-Star Game
- 2002 Zlata Hokejka
- 2003 NHL All-Star Game
- 2004 NHL All-Star Game
- 2005 IIHF European Champions Cup - winning HK Avangard Omsk with the
- 2005 Zlata Hokejka
- 2005 NHL Offensive Player of the Month in December
- 2006 NHL Offensive Player of the Month March
- 2006 Lester B. Pearson Award
- 2006 NHL First All -Star Team
- 2006 Zlata Hokejka
- 2007 Zlata Hokejka
- 2008 Zlata Hokejka
- 2009 KHL All-Star Game
- 2010 KHL All-Star Game
- 2010 Czech Medal of Merit II stage
- 2011 KHL All-Star Game
- 2011 Zlata Hokejka
- Acceptance in the Czech Hockey Hall of Fame
Internationally
- 2005 All- Star Team of the World Cup
- 2005 Inclusion in the Triple Gold Club
- 2006 bronze medal at the Winter Olympics
- 2010 Gold medal at the World Championships
- 2011 bronze medal at the World Championships
- 2011 Best striker in the World Cup
- 2011 All- Star Team of the World Cup
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Czechoslovakia at:
- U18 European Junior Championships 1989
- U20 Junior World Cup 1990
- World Cup 1990
- Canada Cup 1991
Represented the Czech Republic at:
- World Cup 1994
- World Cup of Hockey 1996
- Winter Olympics 1998
- Winter Olympics 2002
- World Cup 2002
- World Cup 2004
- World Cup of Hockey 2004
- World Championship 2005
- Winter Olympics 2006
- World Cup 2009
- 2010 Winter Olympics
- World Cup 2010
- World Cup 2011
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )
Others
Jagr spent the season breaks predominantly in the Czech Republic. In memory of the Prague Spring, in which his two grandfathers died, he wears the number 68
The mullet haircut is known in Czech as " Jagr ". Jaromir Jagr has now separated from this hairstyle.
Jagr is Orthodox Christian. In 2001 he converted to the Russian Orthodox faith.