Jaromír Jágr

Jaromír Jágr (born February 15, 1972) is a Czech professional ice hockey right winger who plays for the Rytíři Kladno until the end of 2012 NHL lockout. 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. In 2012 he signed a contract with Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL) in the off-season. Jágr has formerly played with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals, New York Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers; serving as captain of the Penguins and the Rangers. After leaving the Rangers, Jágr 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 two consecutive Stanley Cups in the 1991 and 1992 seasons with the Pittsburgh Penguins. He has won the Art Ross Trophy as the NHL's leading point scorer five-times (four-times in a row) and two-times was a finalist, received the Lester B. Pearson Award as voted by the NHL Players' Association three times, and won a Hart Trophy as the league's most valuable player (five-times was a finalist - usually lacked a few points or he had more games played than a winner ). In 2006 he was nominated to win Art Ross Trophy, Hart Trophy and Lester B. Pearson Award. He won "only" a Lester B. Pearson Award and the rest of these trophies won Joe Thornton. During taking of 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,". 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, as well as the leading point scorer among active NHL players. Jágr was the Czech Republic's flag bearer for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.

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 2010.