Jagr on lone season with Flyers: 'The whole year was perfect'
Although Jaromir Jagr's time with the Philadelphia Flyers was short, the future Hall of Famer has fond memories of playing in the City of Brotherly Love.
Signed to a one-year, $3.3 million deal, Jagr joined the Flyers in 2011-12 after spending three seasons in the Kontinental Hockey League. The veteran forward credited the club on Monday for providing a perfect landing spot as he got acclimated to the speed of the game.
"The whole year was perfect. No question about it,” Jagr told the Courier Post. "It helped me getting back in the NHL again because you play a different game for three years at a slower pace, more patient. This was going to be all of a sudden, jumping into the NHL, quicker, but (the Flyers) played a puck-possession game and it helped me adjust to the NHL again. Thank God I picked Philly to be that team to help me."
Jagr meshed well with captain Claude Giroux and then-Flyer Scott Hartnell on the team's top line, collecting 19 goals and 35 assists in 73 games.
The 43-year-old has since moved on to the Dallas Stars, Boston Bruins and New Jersey Devils before finding a home with the Florida Panthers. Jagr repaid Philadelphia with two goals in Florida's 7-1 season-opening triumph on Saturday before being held off the scoresheet in a 1-0 setback to the Flyers two nights later.
(h/t Courier Post)
