Eye of Ra
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The Czech Leauge is much better than ECHL. The Czech Leauge has taken steps. Its on pair with NLA and KHL right now.
What was the draw of the KHL for Jagr?
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Troubadour
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It all comes down to three aspects:
Jagr being the owner of the team.
Jagr having strong legs/size.
Jagr still having super hands, which is pure ability.
I honestly cannot think of ANY formerly elite NHLers who could play pro hockey at 53, no matter their desire, because the legs/hands/size combo of Jagr is so rare.
Disciplined Lemieux, maybe.
This reminds me when I say Lafleur in Vancouver late in his career in a Nordiques jersey.
Hair was still flowing but he obviously had lost many steps and players let him just glide and float out there and didn't challenge him like a normal player.
We all shouted "Guy, Guy, Guy" when he had the puck and even those his stats looked pretty good he really wasn't anymore.
Probably some of that going on with Jagr.
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Jagr's demise was also impacted by the direction the league was trending. 07-08 was DPE level scoring. 2.72 G/GP, right in line with 1999-2002 levels.
08 was a weird year for the Rangers and they had a bunch of setbacks. Our young players mostly sucked, particularly Marcel Hossa an Prucha. We had Straka getting old/injured (tho he and Jagr both had terrific playoffs), and he'd be back in CZ come summer done with the NHL.
We had Shanahan becoming a special teams only option. Drury also had success on the powerplay, likely at the expense of a few Jagr goals.
Gomez and Drury, the 35 million dollar men (5x7) came in and performed okay although Jagr and Gomez didnt work together. I seem to recall Jagr playing with Avery and rookie Dubinsky for a chunk of time with Straka out.
And one other thing, Jagr had this really strange soul patch thing on his chin that spring for the playoffs.
https://puckstopshere.blogspot.com/2008/07/khl-is-for-real.html This blog is contemporary and they claim the deal was 2 year 23 M in KHL playing a 56 game schedule. They have a link to a Bloomberg article on the signing. Tried to verify the amount but the link is long dead. Anyway for 2008 season the NHL had a 50 M salary cap and the may a player could earn was 10,000,600. So Jagr is earning more than that for 2/3 the work. There's the answer.
08 was a weird year for the Rangers and they had a bunch of setbacks. Our young players mostly sucked, particularly Marcel Hossa an Prucha. We had Straka getting old/injured (tho he and Jagr both had terrific playoffs), and he'd be back in CZ come summer done with the NHL.
We had Shanahan becoming a special teams only option. Drury also had success on the powerplay, likely at the expense of a few Jagr goals.
Gomez and Drury, the 35 million dollar men (5x7) came in and performed okay although Jagr and Gomez didnt work together. I seem to recall Jagr playing with Avery and rookie Dubinsky for a chunk of time with Straka out.
And one other thing, Jagr had this really strange soul patch thing on his chin that spring for the playoffs.
https://puckstopshere.blogspot.com/2008/07/khl-is-for-real.html This blog is contemporary and they claim the deal was 2 year 23 M in KHL playing a 56 game schedule. They have a link to a Bloomberg article on the signing. Tried to verify the amount but the link is long dead. Anyway for 2008 season the NHL had a 50 M salary cap and the may a player could earn was 10,000,600. So Jagr is earning more than that for 2/3 the work. There's the answer.
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MadLuke
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Jagr was a really strong possession player (which was trending at the time if I do not have the timeline mixup) with an history to do really well in low scoring time.... not so sure why it would the league trend go against Jagr doing well in the nhl.
