Written by Julie Sanders at CrConnection.com
Jagr might have been second on the list by now but he played three seasons in the Russia-based Kontinental Hockey League from 2008-2011 and had three of his 23 NHL seasons shortened due to money disputes between club owners and players.
The Washington Capitals are off to a fast start.
Jagr has also played for the Pittsburgh Penguins, New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers, Dallas Stars, Boston Bruins and New Jersey Devils.
The Capitals came into Florida off a solid shutout win over the Colorado Avalanche and continued their solid game play, beating their hosts 4 to 2.
116 seconds later Evgeny Kuznetsov got his first of the year by tipping a floater from Matt Niskanen past Luongo’s glove hand to extend Washington’s early lead to two.
Veteran Jaromir Jagr is still looking for goal No. 750 after coming up empty in the first three games despite recording nine shots on goal while playing on a productive top line.
“In the third we sat back a little bit or they pushed back a little bit”.
Jagr’s goal should have given the Panthers a lead – only Florida had an earlier goal waived off on an early whistle as an official lost track of the puck (it was clearly on the ice in front of a downed Holtby) and blew his whistle just before Colton Sceviour jammed it home. That third goal was sort of lucky, a bouncing puck from the blue line and changed direction. Jonathan Marchessault (two goals, two assists) has skated alongside Aleksander Barkov (two, one) and Jagr (one assist) to open the season with Huberdeau out indefinitely. The ref stood up, said he thought it was covered. “He made a mistake and it happens”.
Trailing 2-0, the Panthers closed to 2-1 on Matheson’s shot from the sideboards that snuck past Holtby on the stick side with 6:13 left in the first.
The Capitals scored two goals less than two minutes apart in the first period.
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