SUNRISE–It was great to be home for the holidays for the Florida Panthers this year.
Behind a two-goal effort by their leading scorer Jaromir Jagr and a 38-save performance by backup goal Al Montoya, the Florida Panthers defeated the Minnesota Wild 2-1 Sunday night at the BB&T Center.
The Panthers closed out a six-game homestand undefeated and hit the road with a nine-game winning streak overall. Florida (23-12-4) has a three-point lead over Montreal in the Atlantic Division.
For Jaromir Jagr the game saw him score his team-leading 12th and 13th goals of the season to finish the game with 735 career goals. He is now within six goals of Brett Hull’s fourth all-time careeer total of 741.
Jagr scored 27 seconds in to the game banking a puck off the skate of Minnesota’s goalie as he skated by the crease. Nearly nine minutes into the third period of a tie game, Jagr gathered the puck near center ice then found his chance between the circles. Florida survived a Wild power play and later two minutes of 6 on 5 hockey after Minnesota pulled their goalie which made it difficult to set up a hat trick attempt. The second goal extended Jagr’s career total game winning goal total to 132.
The Wild only scored once, by Jason Zucker . Panthers goalie Montoya raise his record to 6-1-1. Minnesota showed good form in moving up the ice as a cohesive five-man unit and Wild coach Mike Yeo called it one of his team’s better road efforts.
Highlights from nhl.com can be seen here:
http://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/recap?id=2015020580&navid=sb:recap&intcmpid=sb-highlights
The game featured a Latin theme and after Jagr’s goal posts like this started showing up on twitter:
Seth Rorabaugh If you ever wondered what a goal by Jaromir Jagr sounds like in Spanish, here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMsMRlD9-7o …
The popular Jagr’s production prompted this thought from a teammate:
“He pushes all of us. He still moves like he’s 30 years old.”
Wayne Gretzky had 9 G in 70gms in his final season in the NHL at the age of 38. Jagr has 13 G in 36 gms at the age of 43. #GOAT #FlaPanthers
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, but worth the wait. Jagr has been more active on Twitter this season.
The two best Jagr facebook pages are:
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.
The article was shared by Sportsnet on Dec. 20, 2015.
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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