Jaromir Jagr
Jaromir Jagr
Jaromír Jágr; born February 15, 1972) is a Czech professional ice hockey right winger currently playing for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League. 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 Leaguewith Avangard Omsk before returning to the...
NationalityCzechoslovakian
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth15 February 1972
CityKladno, Czech Republic
Its tough to be down (in the series), I can't really describe how it feels. We are almost done and we are unable to score any goals.
It's not easy to face him. Everybody knows how good he is. But we don't have a choice. We have to face it. They beat you with with one goal or two goals. They're not going to beat you 7-0.
It's the playoffs. If I can play, I'm going to play. I knew it wasn't going to be any good. I tried my best.
The New York Rangers don't have much experience in the playoffs the last years but the players are different. You have to forget about what happened the day before and think forward, never be too satisfied and never be too angry.
Even when they scored those two goals, we had it under control.
That's special for me, of course. I scored in overtime in Wayne Gretzky's last game here and I scored in overtime tonight. Of course, it's great.
It was a playoff game. If we're going to play each other in the playoffs, the games are going to look a lot like that.
It was not illegal. I know they're going to measure. Why would I go out with an illegal stick? What do you think I am? Stupid?
It wasn't a good start for us, for sure. The whole game, we had to chase it. The only good thing being down 3-0 was that we had 55 minutes left to try to get at least a point.
It wasn't a good shot. I thought someone was coming up behind me and rushed it. I'd like to have that one back.
It wasn't a good game for us. We were kind of flat, maybe we were overconfident. We scored a goal and we were excited and then they scored their second one. That's what killed us.
Nothing happened. The coach put me out there for the last 20 seconds, but I didn't even try. I just stood there. That's not what we wanted to do, embarrass the team.
It was probably my last match in the national team. Like for lots of boys.
it's very likely that the World Cup will become the last tournament on the national team for me.