Jagr, 41, seeking NHL deal
Jaromir Jagr wants to extend his NHL career, and his agent said some teams are “very interested” in his 41-year-old client.
Jagr might have to wait a while, but the league’s active scoring leader is hardly the only free agent still looking for a new job this weekend.
“He definitely still wants to play and there is some interest in him,” Jagr’s agent, Petr Svoboda, told The Associated Press on Saturday. “I think it’s going to take some time, but you never know for sure because there are three teams that are very interested.”
Svoboda declined to say which teams wanted to sign Jagr.
Jagr, a five-time scoring champion and former NHL MVP, was able to continue his career during the lockout-shortened season when the Dallas Stars gave him a $4.55 million, one-year contract last summer.
After Jagr had 14 goals and 26 points in 34 games for the Stars, showing he could still produce, Dallas dealt him to the Bruins.
He had nine points in 11 regular-season games with Boston and 10 assists in 22 postseason games. He didn’t have a goal in the playoffs but made key plays that didn’t show up on the score sheet.
Jagr teamed with Mario Lemieux to help lead the Penguins win a pair of Stanley Cup championships as a teenager in his first two NHL seasons in 1991 and 1992.
