Report Panthers told Jaromir Jagr they would offer a new contract then didnt

Days after one NHL relic was , another may be traveling the same road. No one says , a Lars Eller Jersey hockey all-timer who remains a free agent in search of a new team at 45, is bound for the Kontinental Hockey League . But Jagr, who is after a 16-goal, 82-game season in his 40s, may have been misled by the , his last team, before enduring his ongoing stint on the open market. In a New York Post Dmitry Orlov Jersey story suggesting the NHL’s increased emphasis on speed has left aging veterans like Jagr without much interest, Larry Brooks that the Panthers originally told Jagr they would offer him a new contract for 2017-18, Martin Fehervary Jersey then didn’t. We have it on good authority that Jagr was told at the end of the season by Florida management a contract offer would be forthcoming following the expansion draft, but then the pledge evaporated. Perhaps the change of heart followed the hiring of Bob Boughner as head coach. Brooks’ report aligns with , when Jagr and the Panthers were said to be discu sing a new deal. And perhaps the arrival of Boughner, who is just 46 himself, did influence a reverse of course in plans, especially if the transition to a new regime coincided with added NHL Washington Capitals Jersey emphasis on Florida’s youth movement. Plans can and do change quickly, of course, but if the changes the Panthers apparently made regarding Jagr prove to be the start of the league’s slow, unceremonious and rather unjustified phasing out of one of its agele s icons (and, more importantly, a still-productive forward), it could Nathan Walker Jersey be remembered as much more than a mere change of heart.