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Jaromír Jágr (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjaromiːr ˈjaːɡr̩] ( listen); born February 15, 1972) is a Czech professional ice hockey right winger who currently plays for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League. Jágr is the most productive European-born player who ever played in the NHL and he is considered one of the best players of all time. He formerly played with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals, New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers, and the Dallas Stars; serving as captain of the Penguins and the Rangers. After leaving the Rangers, he played for three seasons in the Kontinental Hockey League with Avangard Omsk before returning to the NHL with the Flyers.
Jágr was the fifth overall selection in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft. He won consecutive Stanley Cups in the 1991 and 1992 seasons with the Penguins. He has won the Art Ross Trophy as the NHL's leading point scorer five times (four times in a row), received the Lester B. Pearson Award for the NHL's outstanding player as voted by the NHL Players' Association three times, and won a Hart Trophy as the league's most valuable player, and was a finalist five times. In 2006 he was nominated for the Hart Trophy and Lester B. Pearson Award. He won the Lester B. Pearson Award while the Hart went to Joe Thornton. During the award speech for the Lester B. Pearson Award Jagr said: "With this award, you get voted on by players you play against every night and I think they understand the game better than the media".[2] He has been named to seven NHL First All-Star Teams. Jágr is currently the NHL's eighth leading point-scorer (as of the end of the 2011--12 NHL season), and is the all-time leader among European trained players in goals, assists and points,[3] as well as the leading point scorer among active NHL players.[4] Jágr was the Czech Republic's flag bearer for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. As of January 11, 2013, Jágr had accumulated exactly 2000 points in his professional career.
He is one of a small group of hockey players to have won the Stanley Cup (1991, 1992), the Ice Hockey World Championships (2005, 2010), and the Olympic gold medal in ice hockey (1998). This is known as the Triple Gold Club, and Jágr is one of only two Czech players (the other being Jiří Šlégr) in the Triple Gold Club, the 15th player to complete it out of 25 total, as of June 2011.[5]
