Jaromir Jagr At 40

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SI Staff
Publish date:
Feb 15, 2012

Jaromir Jagr At 40

Mario Lemieux and Jaromir Jagr

As Jaromir Jagr celebrates his 40th birthday, SI looks back at the career of the Flyers forward.

Pittsburgh Penguins

Jagr at the bottom of the dog pile (he's under No. 5) after the Penguins' 1992 Stanley Cup win.

Jaromir Jagr and Mario Lemieux

Jagr and Lemieux hold the Stanley Cup after sweeping the Chicago Blackhawks in the 1992 finals.

Jaromir Jagr and fan

Jagr talks with a fan (and rocks a sweet mullet) at a stadium in the Czech Republic in the summer of 1992.

Jaromir Jagr

Jagr goes for a backhanded shot in a 1993 game against the Capitals.

Jaromir Jagr and Luc Robitaille

Jagr pretends to feed sardines to Penguins teammate Luc Robitaille in a 1995 photo shoot. Jagr was a finalist for the Hart Trophy (MVP) in 1995 and 1998 before winning the award in 1999. He was also a MVP finalist in 2000, 2001 and 2006.

Jaromir Jagr

Jagr (68) and Pittsburgh teammate J.J. Daigneault (36) celebrate Daigneault's playoff goal against the Florida Panthers. Jagr had 439 goals and 640 assists in 11 seasons with the Penguins.

Vaclav Havel, Bill Clinton and Jaromir Jagr

President Bill Clinton introduces then-Penguins forward Jaromir Jagr to Czech Republic president Vaclav Havel at the White House in September 1998. Jagr was a part of the gold medal-winning Czech team at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Jaromir Jagr

Here's an aerial view of Jagr in action against Russia in the 1998 Winter Olympics. Jagr and the Czech squad took the gold medal in Nagano.

Jaromir Jagr

Jagr plays table hockey with patients of the Children's Oncology Clinic in Prague. Jagr signed with the Flyers in the summer of 2011 after spending three years in Russia's Kontinental Hockey League.

Jaromir Jagr and Wayne Gretzky

Jagr embraces Wayne Gretzky after the Great One's final game.

Jaromir Jagr

Jagr speaks to cheering fans at Washington's Dulles Airport upon his arrival as a Capitals player in the summer of 2001. Washington lured Jagr away from Pittsburgh with what was then the largest contract in NHL history, a seven-year, $77 million deal that the Czech star failed to live up to.

Jaromir Jagr

Jagr, then a Washington Capital, plays in a charity soccer match in the Czech Republic during the 2002 offseason.

Mario Lemieux and Jaromir Jagr

Jagr shakes hands with longtime Penguins teammate Mario Lemieux after a game at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Jagr and Lemieux teamed up to lead the Penguins to the 1991 and 1992 Stanley Cup titles.

NHL SuperSkills Competitors

Jaromir Jagr (far left) on the ice with fellow World Stars (left to right) Pavol Demitra, Espen Knutsen, Patrik Elias, Ziggy Palffy and Sandis Ozolinsh at the 2002 All-Star SuperSkills competition.

Jaromir Jagr

Jagr handles the puck behind the net for the Rangers in a 2005 game against the New Jersey Devils. Jagr has 646 goals and 953 assists in over 1200 career NHL games.

Jaromir Jagr

Jagr kisses the trophy after his Czech team beat Canada 3-0 to win the gold medal at the 2005 IIHF World Ice Hockey Championships.

Sidney Crosby and Jaromir Jagr

Jagr gets shoved off the puck by Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby in a January 2006 game. Jagr scored a Rangers record 54 goals in the 2005-06 season.

Jaromir Jagr

Jagr celebrates after scoring a goal for the New York Rangers in their 2007 playoff series against the Buffalo Sabres. Jagr joined the Rangers in 2003 after playing the first 14 years of his NHL career with the Penguins and Washington Capitals.

KHL All Star Game

Players from the Jaromir Jagr team, in blue, and players from the Alexei Yashin team, in red, are seen during the 2009 KHL All-Star Game in Moscow's Red Square.

Jaromir Jagr

Jagr carries the Czech Republic flag during the opening ceremony for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Jagr and the Czech team did not medal at the Vancouver games.