Jaromir Jagr most unerrated weird old hockey man! He rigged his own draft! He had one of the greatest mullets of all time! He's the Rangers all-time leader both points and goals in a season, despite being a) a Ranger for 5 minutes and b) 33 at the time, and that's maybe not in the top 10 most impressive things he did in his career. He keeps resetting his own timer for his Hall of Fame introduction because he wont stop playing at 52! Does he have dirt on Father Time or something?
i love jaro he's got everything... a fraught old man yaoi situation with lemieux.... a controversially younger girlfriend (she's 30) ... a peanut butter sponsorship... played games both a) against the hartford whalers and b) with matthew tkachuk....
sports is about the narratives (and the soulmates)
mario-jagr and sid-geno back to back cups / jagr on mario before his jersey retirement ceremony / sid on geno after he was re-signed (the athletic) / rookie geno on sid (the athletic) / kris letang on the parallels between sidgeno and mariojagr
I love hockey because the widely-accepted Inner Circle Of Greats is a Saskatchewan farm boy, a suspiciously Soviet-friendly twink, a guy whose name translates to "the best," a bisexual with a mullet, a Russian laboratory experiment, The Beloved And Highly Favoured Child Of God, and two unrelated white boys named Connor
I’m going to start screaming and never stop they’re driving me INSAAAAAAANE they hadn’t seen each other since like 2017 or whatever it was and now Mario’s flying out to the Czech Republic immediately after Jaromir leaves Pittsburgh after the ceremony and now Jaromir is back two seconds later and they’re spending ALL their time together….my god is ANYONE ELSE SEEING THIS?!?!?