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Jaromir Jagr - the most famous Czech hockey player and one of the most successful hockey players in the world. Thousands of fans around the world follow his career, and thousands of women would dream of being in the place of the girl of this brutal handsome man.
Jaromir was born on February 15, 1972 in the Czechoslovak town of Kladno. At the age of four, his parents brought Jaromir to a hockey club at a local club, and since then, everything Jagr's life and was associated with hockey.
Already in his first professional season in 1988 at HC Kladno, Jaromir showed simply remarkable results, receiving 18 rating points. In 1990, Jaromir Jagr moved to the USA to play for the NHL team " Pittsburgh Penguins". The hockey player also shows excellent results there in the first season, scoring 27 goals, and in the second 32 goals in 70 matches.
In total, Jaromir Jagr played for the Pittsburgh Penguins for 11 years, having managed to become the NHL's top scorer 5 times. And in 2001, he was exchanged for 3 hockey players from the Washington Capitals team. Journalists then wrote that " Jagr traded for 3 bags of pucks". And they were not far from the truth.
In 2004, Jagr moved from the Washington Capitals to the New York Rangers. In the 2004 season, there was a break between games in the NHL, and at this time Jaromir plays Avangard Zaom. In 2008, Jaromir signed a full-fledged contract with Avangard. Jaromir spent 4 seasons at Avangard and during this time he scored 93 goals and took 5th place in the list of Avangard's Best Snipers.
In 2011, Jagr's contract with Avangard ended and Jaromir had to choose the way forward. Avangard offered Jagr to extend the contract, but the hockey player was thinking about returning to the NHL. July 1, 2011 Jaromir Jagr signed a contract with hockey club"Philadelphia Flyers"- a rival to his "native" Pittsburgh Penguins. The contract amount was 3.3 million dollars.
Where is Jaromir Jagr playing now?
A year later, in 2012, Jaromir began to play for the club "Dallas Stars". On March 30, 2013, in a game between Dallas and Minnesota, Jagr made his 1,000th assist in his NHL career.
Personal life of Jaromir Jagr
At the end of 2012, the Internet community was shocked by the news that Jaromir Jagr broke up with his model girlfriend of Ukrainian origin Inna Pugaykova. I met Inna Jaromir for more than six years and everyone was already talking about their upcoming wedding. And here is the news. Jaromir commented on this event in the following way:
“We just agreed that it would be better to leave and everyone will go their own way, will live their own lives.”
- Date of birth of Jaromir Jagr: February 15, 1972
- NHL club: free agent
- Position: right winger
- Game number: 68
- Hobbies: has his own Gym and is involved in it
- Where lives: Miami, Florida, America.
- Instagram Jaromir Jagr: jj68jaromirjagr https://www.instagram.com/jj68jaromirjagr/, 126k followers
- Net worth: $40 million
- Personal life: Jagr has never been married, at various times met with Iva Kubelkova, Andrey Vereshova, Nicole Lenertova, Lucia Borgieva and Inna Pugaykova. Now he lives with model Verunka Koprivova (Instagram - verunkakoprivova https://www.instagram.com/verunkakoprivova/, 122 thousand subscribers).
- Children: no
Jaromir Jagr
Czech professional hockey player, currently left without a club in the NHL after the termination of his contract with the Calgary Flames. In 1990, he was selected by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the draft with the fifth number. He played for the Penguins from 1990 to 2001, during which time he won the Stanley Cup twice with the club.
In 2001, he was traded to the Washington Capitals and in 2004 to the New York Rangers. He also played in the NHL with the Philadelphia Flyers, Dallas Stars, New Jersey Devils and Florida Panthers. Five times he became the NHL's top scorer, and in 1999 he was recognized as the most valuable player of the season. Participated in the NHL All-Star Weekend 13 times.
In October 2017, Jagr signed a one-year deal with the Calgary Flames. However, the club was not too impressed with the performances of the Czech and after a couple of months they began to consider the option of breaking up. In February 2018, Jagr ended up in the Czech Kladno after leaving the NHL.
As part of the Czech national team, he won the Olympic Games in Nagano and the bronze medal in Turin. Twice became the world champion - in 2005 and 2010. Holder of a number of NHL records.
Jaromir Jagr Highlights
For your attention - a selection of the most important points in Jaromir Jagr's NHL career from 1990 to 2006.
Merciless time does not know pity even in relation to real legends. The famous at the age of 45 left the National Hockey League, and this time, apparently, for good. The season at Calgary turned out to be frankly unimportant for the Czech striker: Jagr was only able to sign a contract in the fall, and due to protracted negotiations, he was forced to miss the entire preseason, and all plans to demonstrate veteran prowess turned out to be crumpled due to injuries. 1 goal and 6 assists in 22 matches - this was the last overseas season for the 68th number, which was the last representative of hockey "good old" times.
The former giants Wayne and Mario left the stage a long time ago, the Detroit Russian Five died down and Scotty Bowman retired, Gashek and Brodo caught all their goals, went through lockout wars with varying success, formed and lived to see the KHL anniversary season, and Jagr played. However, there is no talk of ending his career yet - in his native Kladno, where he is the owner, he can continue to go on the ice for as long as he likes. But Jaromir always set himself the maximum and even unsolvable tasks, striving to do what seemed impossible. How impossible it is to imagine Jagr, who is demanding of himself, quietly “dusting” in the second Czech league.
Goals: 766 (3rd all-time)
Transfers: 1155 (5).
Points: 1921 (2).
Matches: 1733 (3).
2 Stanley Cups, 5 prizes top scorer, 3 trophies best player according to the hockey players themselves, 1 MVP of the season, 1 trophy for devotion to hockey.
The leadership of the “lights” acted harshly with Jaromir, but as honestly as possible, and Flames general manager Brad Treliving announced a possible break in relations a few weeks ago. The knee injury that bothered the Czech throughout the season turned out to be too serious for the veteran's body to withstand the most severe loads of the NHL. In accordance with the rules, Jagr was placed on the waver, which provoked a real fan flash mob on social networks: fans of various clubs practiced creating collages and demanded that Jagr take their favorite club for himself. The reality turned out to be very harsh: there was no interest in Jaromir in the NHL, and the option with Kladno was the only one possible.
NHL return possible
In theory, Jaromir could not go to Europe, but go to a farm club, as the NHL rules stipulate, since Jagr's contract with Calgary will run until the end of the season. This would give the striker at least some chance of returning to the Flames, but both the striker himself and the Flames bosses have already thanked each other for their cooperation, which means the end of this story.
“Jagr's career speaks for itself. He is a legend in our sport and we are proud to have Jaromir playing for Calgary. Alas, he started the season too late, and chronic injuries did not allow him to play the way he wanted. In the short time that he spent at our club, Jaromir showed a remarkable professional approach and leadership skills,” said Brad Treliving. However, legally, Jagr's departure to Kladno looks like a loan, and the likelihood that Calgary will require the veteran to join them (for example, to increase the depth of the playoff roster) is not zero.
In addition, after July 1, when the free agent market opens, Jagr can again try his luck and offer his candidacy to the NHL clubs. The chances of a new job overseas look just microscopic, but Jaromir has repeatedly convinced the public that he is able to work miracles.
“There is nothing worse than a chronic injury. If the health problem persists, then you need to understand if Jagr needs all this. Only he himself knows how serious the problem is. Time flies, soon he will be 46 years old, and he is no longer as fast as before. I had a similar problem in the 2003/04 season when I played for Detroit. I was faced with the choice of ending my career or not, but I decided to have an operation on my groin, I was helped by a well-known physiotherapist. I'm back, and even in the NHL. But I was 39 years old, six years younger than Jagr. He didn't have a big farewell match in this league, but it's completely irrelevant to his career. His achievements speak for themselves,” another legendary Czech Dominik Hasek commented on the situation with Jaromir.
"I work to be happy"
“When you're young, you know you can play for a long time. I appreciate every match in which I take part. And what the game is more important the better for me. I explain this to the youth, but they do not understand well. I say that I feel like a 70-year old man who is just trying to be alive and thanks heaven for every day that he can live on this earth. It's hard to fight a god,” Jagr said six years ago. He said, and immediately proved by personal example that it is difficult - it does not mean impossible.
Surprisingly, but true: Jaromir in the NHL was rarely evaluated as an independent serious figure. At first he was an assistant to Lemieux, but even after Mario ended his career, he remained a joker for many. Possessing incredible talent, he lived for pleasure: he drove cars, gambled, and spent money without hesitation. At the same time, he saved Pittsburgh from moving to another city when, in 1999, he almost single-handedly won a series of playoffs against the powerful Devils. Arriving in Russia, he contributed a lot to the development of the KHL, and after a difficult return to the National Hockey League, he became a real demon of training and regimen. Morning out on the ice, special weight skates, work in the gym, skating in a special heavy vest - Jagr treated hockey like a religion, becoming a model for many young players.
“It seems to me that I have reached that point in life when hard work only pleases you. Someone is happy that he has a day off, and I have the opposite. Work is the best thing that happened in my life. And I work just to be happy,” said Jaromir.
He was brilliant and funny, annoying and wise. He remained the one without whom hockey is simply impossible to imagine. He is Jaromir Jagr.
Personal life of Jaromir Jagr, an outstanding hockey player, a legend of Czech hockey, who managed to play in many clubs, has not yet been arranged, despite the fact that the girls do not ignore this stately handsome man. Probably, he is more interested in a career and love for hockey, or maybe he just has not yet met a girl who could make him happy.
True, for six yo Jagr but they had a romantic relationship with the Ukrainian model Inna Pugaykova, and the matter even went to the wedding, but his marriage was not publicly announced anywhere. Later it became known that the forty-two-year-old hockey player never ended his bachelor life - he and Inna decided to part ways peacefully and each go his own way.
In the photo - Jagr with Inna Pugaykova
There were many girls in Jaromir Jagr's personal life, he always liked to spend time in their company. For several years he met with the Czech TV star Nicole Lenertova, although this relationship did not last long - after a month and a half there was such a loud quarrel between them that after parting they did not even want to hear about each other.
Then Jagr got acquainted with "Miss Slovakia-99" Andrea Veresova, a meeting with which took place during tennis tournament in Bratislava. Soon after they met, they began to live together in Pittsburgh. Their romance promised to develop into a wedding, but rumors reached Jagr that his beloved, behind his back, had an affair with his boss, the owner of an overseas hockey team Rangers. Jaromir reacted to these conversations as another duck, abandoned in order to break his morale, but after these events, the affair with Veresova came to naught.
Despite the solid age for athletes, Jagr still shows excellent results in hockey matches, and on the first of March of this year, he scored the seven hundredth puck in his career, and became the seventh player in the world who managed to achieve such an indicator. Hockey entered personal life Jaromira Jagr is very early - at the age of four, he first took a stick in his hands, and spent his first season in 1988, when he was sixteen years old and immediately showed excellent results for his age. On the hockey rink, he looks like a real hero, and his shots are of great power, but during the game, Jaromir Jagr always behaves like a real gentleman.
On December 19 of this year, hockey player Jaromir Jagr became the eighth sniper in the history of the National Hockey League (NHL). The event occurred during a game with Ottawa when the right winger"New Jersey" abandoned his 693rd career puck. And most recently he celebrated 690th puck - that's how much the legendary Mario Lemieux scored.
Jaromir Jagr was born in 1972 in Kladno (Czech Republic). Here were: two winter stadiums and the local team Poldi (SONP), which more than once became the leader of the Czech ice hockey championship.
Jaromir took up the stick at the age of 4. The hockey player spent his first season for the local club Kladno in 1988 at the age of 17. Then he scored his first 8 goals.
Already in the 90th year, Jagr moved to the NHL. His first club was the Pittsburgh Penguins. At the same time, from time to time Jaromir returned to the Czech Republic to play for Kladno. In his first season in the National League, the hockey player scored 27 goals and made 30 assists. The second season was no less successful.
After 11 years, Jagr gets into "". He is exchanged for three players at once. The press joked that the hockey player was exchanged for three bags of pucks. In the capital club, Jagr played for three years, and in 2004 he got to the New York Rangers.
In 2004, a lockout began in the NHL and the Czech hockey player moved to Russia, where he plays for Avangard (Omsk). By the way, it was in Omsk that Jagr converted to Orthodoxy. His contract with the Omsk team will last until 2011. In Russia, Jaromir Jagr was remembered not only for his acting, but also for his participation in the filming of the film Brother-2 with Sergei Bodrov.
In the Russian Super League and Continental hockey league Jaromir Jagr will win the European Cup, become the club's top sniper and scorer and take 5th place in the list of Avangard's best scorers in the top division. Behind Russian club Czech scored 93 goals.
When the contract with Avangard ended, Yar thought for a long time where to continue his career. There was an opportunity to stay in Russia, former colleagues from the Pittsburgh Penguins called, but in the end, quite unexpectedly for everyone, Jaromir became the players of the Philadelphia Flyers (Philadelphia Flyers). Moreover, all five seasons in this club, Jagr played as a defender, and not as a striker as usual.
The 68th number on the uniform of a hockey player is a tribute to his grandfather and a symbol of hatred for communism. Jagr has repeatedly said that he does not feel hostility towards the Russian people, but only towards the communists who suppressed the uprising in the Czech Republic in 1968. Jaromir's dislike for the Soviet regime manifested itself as a child: on the walls of the room there were posters of tennis player Martina Navratilova, who fled to the United States, and Ronald Reigen, the US president, known for his toughness against the USSR.
Games for the Czech national team brought Jaromir no less than success in clubs. Many believe that 30 years of Czech hockey owe everything to one guy from Kladno. Golden medal at the Nogano Olympics, two "gold" at the world championships in 2005 and 2010, plus 4 bronze medals at the same world championships - the Czech team would hardly have received all this without Jaromir.
so, now Jaromir Jagr is ranked 8th among the best snipers in the NHL. Just one puck separates the Czech hockey player from Mark Messier, so it is likely that Jagr will soon rise another step.
Together with the 25 greatest hockey players Jagr entered the Triple Golden Club of Hockey Players for winning in , Olympic Games and world championships.
