NEWARK–The Florida racked up their second straight 5-1 victory in the New York City metro area, beating the New Jersey Devils Thursday night, two days after beating the New York Islanders by the same score. With the win by the Panthers both teams are now 16-12-4-36 with New Jersey ranked higher in the wild card standings due to 14 regulation wins to Florida’s 13.
First period goals by Jussi Jokinen and Dimitry Kulikov started things right for Florida, who added a second period goal by Brandon Pirri and final stanza scores by Reilly Smith and an empty netter by Logan Shaw. Things were pretty for Panthers goalie Al Montoya, who raised his record to 5-1-0 in turning aside 15 of 16 shots. The Devils lone goal was a power play goal scored by Sergey Kalinin.
The top line of Jonathon Huberdeau-Aleksander Barkov and Jaromir Jagr impressed nhl.com
What a tremendous shift by Huberdeau-Barkov-Jagr. Jagr was simply dominant. Leads to Kulikov goal. Jagr was close to score No. 732.
Another observer noted:
Watching guys try to take the puck away from Jagr legitimately looks like a big brother bullying his little brother, playing keep away.
Highlights of the game from nhl.com are presented here:
http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/console?hlg=20152016,2,467&navid=sb:highlights
It’s a wonderful mix of old and young players on the Panthers and the New York Times took note of this following the Panthers win over the Devils.
Thursday was a busy night for the Atlantic Division and several more games involving its teams play Friday night.
#CHASINGGORDIE1850 Jagr’s assist was his 22rd point of the season and 1,093rd assist of his career, which with 731 gives him a career point total of 1824. Gordie Howe is the NHL’s third all-time leading scorer.
The Panthers have one for the road tonight in Carolina before having a six-pack of home games to get them through the holidays. Vancouver visits BB&T Sunday afternoon, then Ottawa comes to South Florida Tuesday for the Panthers final game before Christmas. Tickets for all Panthers home games are available at http://www.floridapanthers.com. Procrastinating Christmas shoppers can treat themselves and some friends to some exciting Panthers hockey with a gift package or design their own ticket package.
Assorted Jagr-related links:
Florida Panthers 2015-16 Media Guide
http://panthers.nhl.com/v2/ext/Florida201516MediaGuide_web.pdf
Florida Panthers Team website: http://www.floridapanthers.com
Some Jagr-related social media accounts:
@68Jagr This is the real site, the one and only official Jaromir Jagr twitter account. Postings are rare.
The two best Jagr facebook pages are: https://www.facebook.com/68Jagr/ This is the page Jagr posts on, if he is going to post at all.
Another good facebook page is one produced by someone in the Czech Republic. It has more than 100,000 likes. This is not the official page, but it is very good.
https://www.facebook.com/JaromirJagrfan/?fref=nf
@FlaPanthers and @FLAPanthersPR The official twitter accounts for news about the team.
@dougielarge Doug Cifu, few owners in sports relate to the fans as much as this man who interacts with fans and media on twitter.
@goldieonice — Steve Goldstein, TV play-by-play of the Panthers. Brings all those exciting highlights to life.
@DenisPotvinFox — NHL Hall of Famer Denis Potvin works along side Goldstein in the booth.
@HeyRedDeer color man Randy Moller who left the radio booth to help Goldstein and Potvin on TV.
@GeorgeRichards Panthers beat writer for the Miami Herald.
@HFialkov Panthers beat writer for the Sun Sentinel
@AntwanStaley Includes Panthers coverage in his all sports all the time reports
@Cats0ntheprowl twitter for Cats On the Prowl, offering detailed reviews of Panthers games and more.
@SunshineSkate twitter for The Sunshine Skate, another blog with special emphasis on advanced stats and charts that will make you dizzy.
@Zdenek_Janda US-based Czech reporter who covers the NHL and reports on other news for the people of the Czech Republic.
@Jsmidcro Jan Smid was a US-based Czech reporter who collaborated on “Jagr”, an autobiography in the late 90’s detailing Jagr’s early life and career in the NHL.
@NHLHistoryGirl This hockey loving woman shares interesting informational tidbits about hockey and the NHL in general. How does she do it?
@MyRegularFace She’s another gem. Watches lots of games and gets up GIFs faster than nhl.com or anyone else out there.
@KrRutherford Kristina Rutherford wrote a great article for Canada’s sportsnet magazine.
Nigel Buchanan, whose superhero treatment of Jagr in his art for sportsnet magazine is one of the many efforts he has on display at http://www.nigelbuchanan.com.
Quant Hockey: Career stats updated game by game by a hockey lover in Europe. Site enables you to find career leaders in any offensive category by clicking on the category you are researching.
http://www.quanthockey.com/nhl/records/nhl-players-all-time-points-leaders.html
@rytiriKladno The Kladno Hockey Club: Before coming to the NHL Jagr played for this team in the Czech league as a teenager. Now he owns the team. It’s in Czech but some devices can translate to English. Follow them at:
@HockeyCzech National organization for hockey in the Czech Republic.
@68isgr8 is the twitter for The Traveling Jagrs. Clad in different Jagr jerseys and hair styles from 68’s career, they gained league-wide recognition when they caught Jagr’s attention during a pre-game skate of a Dallas Stars game in Canada during the 2012-2013 season. Since then, they convene at games in Western Canada and make a road trip or two every year, playing street hockey with locals, posing for hundreds of pictures, and having a good time with fans while honoring an all-time NHL legend.
https://twitter.com/search?q=traveling%20jagrs&src=savs.
Ray Haluska aka Kladno Jagr, curator of the Jagr-O-Meter
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