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Jagr Wants To Lead The Rangers
by Paul on 02/10/08 at 10:29 PM ET
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from Lynn Zinser of the New York Times,
The Rangers treasure that contract because Washington still pays half of Jagr’s $8.36 million salary based on the conditions of the 2004 trade that sent him to New York. And after 17 seasons in the N.H.L., Jagr will not make that kind of money in a new deal.
This has led to rumors that the Rangers will deal Jagr before the trading deadline Feb. 26, although that seems unlikely with a playoff run still in reach.
Jagr said he did not want to play anywhere else. He has relished his role in the Rangers’ return to respectability the past three seasons. He wants to be the player who leads a team to a Stanley Cup, he said, to play the role that Mario Lemieux did for Pittsburgh in 1991 and ’92. Jagr was part of those Penguins teams, winning Cups in his first two N.H.L. seasons.
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