Happy birthday Jags!
There's at least three articles today on the NHL.com site, but would most recommend the 40 for 40 quotes.
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=616940
To me the strangest was from Mark Madden, a Pitt. writer who was hyper-critical of Jagr during his last season there and afterward:
"It was a game against New Jersey in the 1999 playoffs. The guy had a really bad groin pull (kept him out of four games earlier in the series), but he tied it late in Game 6 and won it in overtime, and he had a great game in Game 7. I saw him after the game and he could barely walk. He was, like, dragging a dead leg behind him, a huge bruise up the inside of his thigh.
Anybody who says Jaromir Jagr didn't give it a million percent when he played for the Penguins obviously has a selective memory, because I've never seen a triumph of the will by a hurt player like Jaromir Jagr in that series. It was simply amazing."
The other surprising one was Mike Lange recalling that it was Jagr who coined the phrase "smoked him like a bad cigar"
but he still got awesome hands, it would take few more goals and he would be still carried on hands here.
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