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mikey287 wrote:the suspense of the first pick is killing me, I wonder...
Gaucho wrote:mikey287 wrote:the suspense of the first pick is killing me, I wonder...
How could it not be Kevin Hatcher?
Gaucho wrote:mikey287 wrote:the suspense of the first pick is killing me, I wonder...
How could it not be Kevin Hatcher?
mikey287 wrote:By the way, the games are simulated in an actual garage league...so picking Mario Lemieux first or second would not be advisable...
New York Daily News - Apr. 25, 1999 wrote:Jaromir Jagr, the best player in hockey.
New York Times - May 20, 1995 wrote:Pittsburgh's explosive offense in general and Jaromir Jagr in particular are the main concerns for the Devils in their four-of-seven-game playoff series with the Penguins...
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Jagr's speed, strength and scoring ability were the main reasons the Penguins were the second most productive team in the league in the regular season. His scoring prowess has been the main concern for the Devils...
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Against Boston, the Devils used Claude Lemieux to shadow the Bruins' Cam Neely, but Coach Jacques Lemaire said he had no intention of shadowing Jagr. "There are certain guys you can shadow and others you can't," Lemaire said. "I don't think you can shadow him because he is all over the ice. All the people on the ice will have to be aware of where he is all the time."
New York Times - May 27, 1992 wrote:If Mario Lemieux and Jaromir Jagr both remain with the Pittsburgh Penguins and withstand the test of time, they may some day be remembered as hockey's equivalent of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
Sports Illustrated - Feb. 25, 1991 wrote:Unlike Gretzky, Lemieux will have the opportunity to school his own successor. He has seen the future of hockey, and its first name, Jaromir, is an anagram for Mario Jr. Jagr, a 20-year-old from Czechoslovakia who joined the Penguins in 1990, scored 32 goals this season, but he didn't truly open up his bag of tricks until Lemieux was injured in the second game of the Patrick Division finals against the Rangers. Since then, he has scored fabulous goal after fabulous goal. Just watching him carry the puck can be a thrill. In Game 1 of the finals he faked and juked his way past three Blackhawks before calmly delivering a backhand shot that tied the score 4-4 late in the third period. "Inexcusable," fumed Keenan. "The greatest goal I've ever seen," gushed Lemieux.
Sports Illustrated - Oct. 12, 1992 wrote:Screaming down the right wing, his long dark hair flopping behind his helmet, the lefthanded-shooting Jagr would time and again beat both defensemen like a pair of rented mules.
"He's a different type of player than the league has seen in a long time," says Scotty Bowman, who coached the Penguins last season and is now the team's director of player development and recruitment. "He has a lot of Frank Mahovlich in him. His skating style and strength make him almost impossible to stop one-on-one. A lot of big guys play with their sticks tight to their bodies and don't use that reach to their advantage like Jaromir does."
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In style, though, Jagr is something much different from Lemieux. "When Mario gets the puck, he's always thinking, Where can I put it?" says Bowman. "He'll pass the puck off and get himself in a better situation to score than he was in. When Jaromir gets the puck, he's always thinking, Where can I go with it? He reminds me of Maurice Richard in that way. They both played the off-wing, and both had so many moves I don't think either knew which moves they were going to do until they did them. Totally unpredictable."
Sports Illustated - May 13, 1996 wrote: Of course the NHL could invent other categories for Jagr, besides best-tressed. Best one-on-one player: Jagr. There are faster forwards who might embarrass a defenseman with their speed, but no one plays one-on-one in traffic the way he does. Best combination of skill and strength: Jagr again. The 6'2", 215-pound Czech is the first man to combine the traditional European attributes of slickness, nimble feet and goal scorer's hands with lower-body strength, allowing him to fend off checks and protect the puck. "He's a gorilla, strong as a horse," Penguins coach Ed Johnston says, offering his own vision of Jagr as a crossbreed. "I don't know anybody who's stronger on his skates."
Sports Illustrated - Apr. 12, 1999 wrote:Last month Chicago Blackhawks assistant coach Denis Savard proclaimed Jagr "the best player in the game by a million miles," as if the subject were as closed as a team meeting.
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"Jaromir should get a cut of every contract of everyone who plays with him before signing a new deal because half the money they're getting is due to him," Constantine says, despite his occasional differences with his star. "He makes it tricky for this organization. We have to ask ourselves how good the guy is. Is he good because he plays with Jagr? Not taking anything anyway from XXXXX XXXXXX, who's a helluva player, but none of the guys Jaromir plays with have a time-tested history of being major talents." There is no one riding shotgun for Jagr the way Joe Sakic does for Forsberg, John LeClair does for Lindros or Selanne does for Kariya. Pittsburgh has several forwards with a clue, but it also has more extras than there were in Titanic.
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"There are probably four ways to play Jagr, all of them wrong," Montreal assistant coach Dave King says. "He's the toughest player in hockey to devise a game plan against."
Sports Illustated - Nov. 27, 2000 wrote:When SI asked NHL coaches in September, "Who is the best all-around player in the world?" 19 of the 26 respondents named Penguins right wing Jaromir Jagr. The other seven coaches fell into one of those hard-to-figure minorities, like the one dentist in five who does not recommend sugarless gum for his patients who chew gum.
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