www射-国产免费一级-欧美福利-亚洲成人福利-成人一区在线观看-亚州成人

USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
Sports
Home / Sports / Sports top news

Jagr makes deal with the Devils

By Associated Press in Newark, New Jersey | China Daily | Updated: 2013-07-25 06:38

 Jagr makes deal with the Devils

Jaromir Jagr, formerly of the Boston Bruins, finalized a one-year. $2-million contract with the New Jersey Devils on Wednesday. Jagr is the NHL's active leading scorer, with 1,688 points. Elise Amendola / Associated Press

Veteran sniper expected to help revive Jersey's anemic offense

The New Jersey Devils have replaced their best player with one of the NHL's greatest of all time.

Less than two weeks after the stunning defection of Ilya Kovalchuk back to Russia, the Devils have signed two-time Stanley Cup winner and former NHL MVP Jaromir Jagr to a one-year, $2 million contract .

There is no doubt the 41-year-old Jagr is in the twilight of his career, and he certainly will never fill the void left by Kovalchuk, who decided to retire from the NHL at 30 so he can play in his native Russia.

For now though, Jagr gives general manager Lou Lamoriello and the Devils a proven scorer who works hard up front and can improve the power- play.

"I watched him play the last couple of years and I have never seen someone work so hard," Lamoriello said.

"We know where he is in his career. He brings something. Everyone who has played with him the last couple of years and also the coaches have been complimentary toward everything he has done. There is no question he can help us on the power play.

"He is a well-conditioned athlete and we are happy with what he is going to bring."

Jagr split last season with the Dallas Stars and Boston Bruins, scoring a combined 16 goals and 19 assists in 45 games.

The NHL's active leading scorer added 10 assists in helping the Bruins reach the Stanley Cup final, but he did not score a postseason goal.

He signed with Dallas last summer and opened the season playing in Europe due to the NHL lockout.

The 16 regular-season goals would have led the Devils last season and his 35 points would have been one behind team leader Patrik Elias.

"He is still a top six forward," Lamoriello said.

Kovalchuk, who walked away from $77 million left on a contract that he signed in 2010, had 11 goals and 20 assists in a season limited to 37 games mostly by a shoulder injury.

Jagr had told his agent, Petr Svoboda, a former NHL defenseman, that he wanted to stay in the Eastern Conference.

"There was only one thing on my mind: I wanted to stay in the NHL," Jagr said, adding Russia's KHL was not an option.

Besides Kovalchuk, the Devils also lost forward David Clarkson to Toronto via free agency. Last summer, they lost captain Zach Parise to Minnesota in free agency after New Jersey advanced to the Stanley Cup final.

Lamoriello has tried to fill the holes up front, signing free-agent forwards Ryane Clowe and Michael Ryder away from the New York Rangers and Phoenix Coyotes, respectively.

He also re-signed Elias and fellow forward Dainius Zubrus and defenseman Marek Zidlcky.

On NHL draft day, June 30, New Jersey also acquired goaltender Cory Schneider from Vancouver.

"We like our team right now," Lamoriello said.

"Certainly our goaltending is improved. Our defense is improved because of the experience of the young guys and up front we are going to be a four-line team.

"We have power-play people and penalty killers. This will be one of the bigger teams we've had in size."

Jagr has 681 goals and 1,007 assists in 1,391 career regular-season games with Pittsburgh, Washington, the Rangers, Philadelphia, Dallas and Boston.

(China Daily 07/25/2013 page24)

<<!-- iscomment為1標示該文章可以評論 -->

Most Popular

Highlights

What's Hot
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
主站蜘蛛池模板: 亚洲欧美一区二区三区在饯 | 国产亚洲精品成人a在线 | 久久99精品视频在线在线观看 | 呦视频在线一区二区三区 | www.亚洲黄色 | 免费无毒 | 另类专区亚洲 | 国产大臿蕉香蕉大视频女 | 亚洲欧美日韩精品在线 | 黄色a三级三级三级免费看 黄色a网 | 日本高清毛片视频在线看 | av亚洲男人天堂 | 国产啪精品视频网免费 | 国产一区三区二区中文在线 | 美国毛片网站 | 一级片在线观看 | 日本在线亚州精品视频在线 | 国内精品久久久久久中文字幕 | 久久国产精品99久久久久久牛牛 | 亚洲精品在线播放视频 | 免费观看情趣v视频网站 | 免费观看欧美精品成人毛片能看的 | 久久综合网址 | 久久亚洲国产的中文 | 亚洲综合欧美综合 | 性欧美17一18sex性高清播放 | 99福利网 | 在线亚洲成人 | 成人久久18免费游戏网站 | 三级网站免费观看 | 免费播放特黄特色毛片 | 成年网站在线在免费播放 | 国产一级一片免费播放 | 亚洲精品国自产拍在线观看 | 亚洲精品综合 | 另类专区欧美 | 成人精品第一区二区三区 | 欧美三级香港三级日本三级 | 一级毛片无毒不卡直接观看 | 国产成人免费a在线资源 | 免费看孕妇毛片全部播放 |