{"id":73880,"date":"2025-06-14T00:28:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T00:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/73880\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T00:28:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T00:28:13","slug":"jaromir-jagr-hopes-to-play-38th-professional-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/73880\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaromir Jagr Hopes To Play 38th Professional Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Enough will never be enough for former NHL superstar Jaromir Jagr<\/a>. The two-time Stanley Cup Winner, five-time Art Ross<\/a> Trophy winner, and future first-ballot Hall-of-Famer called an end to his NHL career in 2017-18, after 24 years in the league. But he\u2019s continued his journey in pro hockey through this season, spending the last seven years with Ryt\u00ed\u0159i Kladno in the Czechia Extraliga. Now, after completion of his 37th season in pro hockey, the legendary Jagr committed to one more year on TNT\u2019s pre-game broadcast for Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jagr will extend his career after previously stating the 2024-25 season would be his last. But he performed well throughout the year, netting five goals and 16 points in 39 appearances. He told the TNT broadcast crew:<\/p>\n

\u201cI still love the game. I love to practice. I don\u2019t want to get fat. I lost some weight right now, like 20 pounds, so I feel a little bit better\u2026 I just do it just to be healthy, and I just enjoy the existence\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

That sentiment will launch Jagr one step closer to spending four decades in pro hockey. He\u2019s now 53 years old and no longer holds the majority ownership stake in Kladno\u2019s hockey club \u2013 selling an 80 percent ownership stake in January, after previously serving as a rare combination of club player and owner for 14 years. It was under that title that Jagr supported Kladno\u2019s surge back to Czechia\u2019s top pro league in 2018, and then again in 2021. The team has stayed at the top level in the three seasons since.<\/p>\n

Jagr\u2019s physical upkeep seemed to be declining through last season. He only appeared in 15 games on the season, and \u2013 for the first time in his life \u2013 didn\u2019t record a goal all season long. But he bounced back to form this year, appearing in more games than he has since the 2021-22 campaign, when he scored 19 points in 43 games.<\/p>\n

With health back on his side, Jagr will look to continue Kladno\u2019s surge at the top flight. The club finished second-to-last in the Extraliga last year, though they avoided relegation by four wins. Aside from Jagr, they were led by Eduards Tralmaks<\/a>, who recently signed with the Detroit Red Wings after netting 51 points in 48 Czech games last season.<\/p>\n

Jagr\u2019s trophy cabinet has been filled beyond capacity. He\u2019s a member of the Triple Gold Club \u2013 a winner of Gold Medals at the World Championship, Olympic Games, and a Stanley Cup winner \u2013 on top of taking home hardware at truly every level he\u2019s appeared in. He may fall shy of repeating that in Czechia next season, but one more year will push Jagr even closer to the illustrious, unheralded feat of playing 40 years in pro sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Enough will never be enough for former NHL superstar Jaromir Jagr. The two-time Stanley Cup Winner, five-time Art…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[5058,5,3355,100],"class_list":{"0":"post-73880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-czech-extraliga","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-jaromir-jagr","11":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114678890860721134","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}