{"id":234710,"date":"2025-10-18T20:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/234710\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T20:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:18:09","slug":"jaromir-jagr-starts-his-38th-professional-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/234710\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaromir Jagr starts his 38th professional season"},"content":{"rendered":"

KLADNO, Czech Republic \u2014 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 minutes 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\u2019s 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 released him. Jagr remains second on the NHL\u2019s all-time 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, winning the Stanley Cup with the Penguins in 1991 and 1992.<\/p>\n

Jagr didn\u2019t talk to media after his season\u2019s debut Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe makes his presence felt in the locker room,\u201d forward Jakub Konecny said. \u201cWe have a lot of fun with him.\u201d<\/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<\/a> last January to boost the team financially.<\/p>\n

Then, 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\u2019t reach the playoffs. So, he\u2019s got another chance this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KLADNO, Czech Republic \u2014 At age 53, Jaromir Jagr began his 38th professional season by playing on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-234710","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\/234710","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=234710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}