Posts About "Jaromir Jagr"
The 600-Goal Club
May 24th, 2018 For most hockey players, winning the Stanley Cup is the ultimate goal. From being drafted to helping a team through the regular season, playoffs and eventually Stanley Cup Finals, hoisting the cup is always the end-goal. Along the way, however, players all seek to play the best they can for a variety of purposes. While players always...
The NHL's Exclusive 13 x 30 Club
May 14th, 2018 The 2017-18 season was an incredible season for Russian sniper Alex Ovechkin as he joined not one, but two exclusive clubs. On Mar. 12, he became the 20th member of the 600-goal club and on Jan. 25, the 10th player to join the 13 x 30 club, a group of players who scored 30 goals in at least 13 seasons. Ovechkin also became only the sixth...
NHL Elite: Consistent Point-Per-Game Players
May 8th, 2018 This season, Russian superstars Alex Ovechkin and Evgeni Malkin joined a rare group of players who have averaged a point-per-game played (P/GP) or better for at least 10 seasons. They join Jaromir Jagr and Sidney Crosby as the only active players to do so. Jagr has 13 such seasons while Crosby has 11. I chose 40 games played as the...
Top 10 All-Time European-Born NHL Forwards
April 24th, 2018 Europeans are having a bigger impact in the NHL now than ever before. Of the 985 players to play in at least one game this season, 268, or 27 percent, were born in Europe. Europeans have been at the pinnacle of success in recent seasons, winning five of the past 10 Hart, Art Ross, and Norris Trophy winners. But European success in the...
Art Ross Trophy | 5 Things You Didn't Know
March 9th, 2018 The Art Ross Trophy is awarded annually to the NHL's top scorer. While looking into this year's race we came across some unusual/little known facts: 1. Art Ross Was a Defenseman I had erroneously assumed that because the trophy that bears his name is for the league's top scorer, that Art Ross himself would have been a high scoring...Jaromir Jagr - A Retrospective in Quotations
February 19th, 2018 This post was crafted by hockey journalist and author Ross Bonander. Jaromir Jagr is as timeless as they come. We had Gordie Howe and Chris Chelios but Jagr may be best 'Old' hockey player ever. He turned 46 a few days ago. Counting the two seasons he spent with HC Kladno in Czechoslovakia when he was 16 and 17 years old, and...
