Jaromír Jágr | |||
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Jágr at the 2010 Winter Olympics
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Born |
Kladno, Czechoslovakia |
15 February 1972 ||
Height | 6 ft 3 in (191 cm) | ||
Weight | 230 lb (100 kg; 16 st 6 lb) | ||
Position | Right Wing | ||
Shoots | Left | ||
NHL team Former teams |
Florida Panthers Pittsburgh Penguins Washington Capitals New York Rangers Philadelphia Flyers Dallas Stars Boston Bruins New Jersey Devils HC Kladno (CZE) Avangard Omsk (KHL) |
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National team |
Czechoslovakia Czech Republic |
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NHL Draft | 5th overall, 1990 Pittsburgh Penguins |
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Playing career | 1988–present |
Jágr during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver |
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Medal record | ||
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Men's ice hockey | ||
Representing Czech Republic | ||
Olympic Games | ||
1998 Nagano | ||
2006 Turin |
Winter Olympics 2010 |
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World Cup | ||
2004 World Cup | ||
World Championships | ||
2005 Vienna | ||
2010 Cologne | ||
2011 Bratislava | ||
European Champions Cup | ||
2005 Saint Petersburg | ||
Representing Czechoslovakia | ||
World Championships | ||
1990 Bern | ||
European Junior Championship | ||
1989 Kiev | ||
World Junior Championship | ||
1990 Finland |
Jaromír Jágr (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjaromiːr ˈjaːɡr̩]; born 15 February 1972) is a Czech professional ice hockey right winger currently playing for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has formerly played in the NHL with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals, New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers, Dallas Stars, Boston Bruins and New Jersey Devils, serving as captain of the Penguins and the Rangers. After leaving the Rangers, he played for three seasons in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) with Avangard Omsk before returning to the NHL with the Flyers.
Jágr is the leading point scorer among active NHL players and has the second most points in NHL history. He is the most productive European player who has ever played in the NHL and is considered one of the greatest professional hockey players of all time. In 1990, at age 18, he was the youngest player in the NHL. Currently, at age 45, he is the oldest player in the NHL, and is the oldest player to record a hat-trick. On January 27, 2017, in a ceremony during the All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles, Jágr was part of the second group of players to be named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players in history.
Jágr was the fifth overall selection in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft and remains the only player still active in the NHL from the 1990 Draft. He won consecutive Stanley Cups in the 1991 and 1992 seasons with the Penguins. Individually, he has won the Art Ross Trophy as the NHL scoring champion five times (four times in a row), the Lester B. Pearson Award for the NHL's outstanding player as voted by the NHL Players' Association (NHLPA) three times and the Hart Memorial Trophy as the League's most valuable player once, while being a finalist an additional four times.