{"id":234310,"date":"2025-10-18T16:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T16:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/234310\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T16:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T16:23:07","slug":"ex-nhl-great-jaromir-jagr-53-starts-38th-professional-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/234310\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-NHL great Jaromir Jagr, 53, starts 38th professional season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oct 18, 2025, 06:13 AM ET<\/p>\n

KLADNO, Czech Republic — At age 53, Jaromir Jagr<\/a> began his 38th professional season by playing on the fourth line for his hometown Kladno Knights in a 3-1 victory over Vitkovice on Friday night in the Czech league.<\/p>\n

The former NHL great logged 10:08 in ice time and joined the power-play unit in a season debut that had been delayed because of a muscle problem.<\/p>\n

It was Kladno’s 15th game of the season. Jagr was 53 years, 244 days old.<\/p>\n

Jagr made his debut for Kladno at age 16 and returned to the club in 2018 when the Calgary Flames<\/a> released him. Jagr remains second on the NHL’s career points list, only trailing Wayne Gretzky.<\/p>\n

Jagr, whose 766 NHL goals rank him No. 4 all time on that list, played 11 seasons in Pittsburgh<\/a>, winning the Stanley Cup with the Penguins in 1991 and 1992.<\/p>\n

He didn’t talk to media after his season debut Friday.<\/p>\n

“He makes his presence felt in the locker room,” forward Jakub Konecny said. “We have a lot of fun with him.”<\/p>\n

Until early this year, Jagr served in dual roles as Kladno player and owner, splitting his time between chasing sponsors and dealing with administrative duties and ice time.<\/p>\n

Jagr acquired full ownership in 2017 and sold a majority stake in Kladno in January to boost the team financially.<\/p>\n

He said he would be happy to complete the season by trying to lead Kladno to the playoffs for the first time.<\/p>\n

They didn’t reach the playoffs. So he’s got another chance this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 18, 2025, 06:13 AM ET KLADNO, Czech Republic — At age 53, Jaromir Jagr began his 38th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-234310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}