Victory For The Panthers Thanks to Jagr

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Jágr is the leading point scorer among active NHL players. He is the most productive European player who has ever played in the NHL and is considered one of the greatest professional hockey players of all time. In 1990, at age 18, he was the youngest player in the NHL. Currently, at age 43, he is the oldest player in the NHL, and is the oldest player to record a hat-trick.

Jágr was the fifth overall selection in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft and remains the only player still active in the NHL from the 1990 Draft. He won consecutive Stanley Cups in the 1991 and 1992 seasons with the Penguins. Individually, he has won the Art Ross Trophy as the NHL scoring champion five times (four times in a row), the Lester B. Pearson Award for the NHL’s outstanding player as voted by the NHL Players’ Association (NHLPA) three times and the Hart Memorial Trophy as the League’s most valuable player once, while being a finalist an additional four times.

For two decades, from 1981 to 2001, only three players won the Art Ross Trophy as the leading point-scorer over the regular season: Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux and Jágr. Jágr has won the award the most of any non-Canadian player.

“I didn’t feel good about my game,” he said. “I wanted to make sure it was better today.”

The 43-year-old has 13 goals this season and 735 in his NHL career. He is six behind Brett Hull for third on the all-time list.

“He pushes all of us,” defenseman Alex Petrovic told Fox Sports Florida. “He still moves like he’s 30 years old.”

Backup goaltender Al Montoya is 6-1-1 after making 39 saves for Florida (23-12-4), which completed a perfect six-game homestand and moved three points ahead of the second-place Montreal Canadiens in the Atlantic Division. Florida allowed one goal in back-to-back weekend wins against the Rangers and the Wild.

Minnesota was 0-for-4 on the power play despite controlling the puck for most of the time while playing with the extra man.

“We had a lot of movement, a lot of zone time, not a lot of goals,” Yeo said.

Jágr was the first Czechoslovakian player to be drafted by the NHL without first having to defect to the West; his selection in the NHL draft came as the Iron Curtain was falling. Because of this, after Jágr was taken by the Pittsburgh Penguins with the fifth overall pick in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft, he was able to come immediately to North America from Czechoslovakia. He was a supporting player with the powerhouse Penguins that won back-to-back Stanley Cups in 1991 and 1992. He was one of the youngest players in NHL history, at 20 years of age, to score a goal in the Stanley Cup Finals.

Panthers forward Nick Bjugstad returned to the lineup after missing 15 games because of an upper-body injury.

The Wild conclude a four-game road trip against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday, the same night the Panthers begin a six-game trip at the Buffalo Sabres in quest of their 10th consecutive win.

“It’s been a good homestand,” Bjugstad said. “We want a good road trip.”

Source: http://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/recap?id=2015020580