EDITOR’S NOTE: With the playoff field set after Sunday’s victory by Philadelphia over the New York Islanders, the Panthers will host the Islanders in Game 1 Thursday in the first game of a best of seven series which opens at the BB&T Center. Tickets available from panthers.nhl.com. Follow link for story from the Florida Pantherw website for the entire schedule as well as networks broadcasting the games.
http://panthers.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=878188
With games Thursday and Friday at BB&T Center and at Barclays Center Sunday, JAGRometer.com advises you to load up on work early in the week so you don’t miss a minute of exciting NHL playoff action.
Also, as an addendum to postgame coverage of the Panthers 5-2 victory over Carolina to close out the regular season is the news that the Florida Panthers booster club presented Jaromir Jagr with the Player of the Year award for the team.
SUNRISE: The sun set on the 2015-16 regular season at the BB&T Center in Sunrise, FL last night with a 5-2 victory by the Florida Panthers over the Carolina Hurricanes. Several players achieved individual and team benchmarks to create excitement in a game that had little drama and no impact on the standings.
Jonathon Huberdeau reached the 20-goal mark after starting the campaign with 4 goals in 39 games. Earlier in the year Jaromir Jagr said not to worry because Huberdeau was a goal scorer. Jagr certainly proved right as Huberdeau scored 16 goals in the final half of the 82 game season.
It was only fitting that Huberdeau’s goal came off unselfish assists by the Panthers leading scorer Jagr and their centerman Aleksander Barkov. It was Jagr’s 39th assist of the season and 1119th of his career. The point was his 66th of the season and 1868th of his career.
Barkov carries a nine game point streak into the post season. The trio has been one of the NHL’s best all year and it was obvious these players would work well together from their first shift when they were joined by Panthers coach Gerard Gallant after Jagr joined the Panthers from New Jersey minutes before the trading deadline last season. Since that time Jagr has complied 33 goals and 51 assists for 84 points in 98 games played with the Panthers, for a per game average of .857. 
Other players achieving milestones Saturday night were Reilly Smith, who collected his 25th goal and 50 point mark. Smith became the fourth Panther to score 25 goals along with Barkov, Jagr and Vincent Trocheck. He also became the sixth player to notch 50 points joining those three plus Huberdeau and linemate Jussi Jokinen. Speaking of Jokinen, with a goal and an assist he completed the second best season of his career with 60 points, tops since recording 65 with Carolina in the 2009-2010 season and joins Jagr as the only two Panthers to surpass 60 points this year.
Highlights of the game from NHL.com can be seen here.
https://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/car-vs-fla/2016/04/09/2015021221#game=2015021221,game_state=final
The Panthers final regular season stats can be viewed from the stats page on the teams website, conveniently provided here for you from JAGRometer.com.
http://panthers.nhl.com/club/stats.htm
But the focus of this website remains on the future Hall-of Famer and his solid season made keeping the Jagr-o-Meter updated a full-time job. The last Jagr-o-Meters of the 2014-15 and 2015-16 season are presented as a reminder of the ground Jagr covered in surpassing fellow hockey legends in becoming the third all time leading goal (740) and point (1868) producer. Each event had a countdown, an occurrence and a celebration.
Other achievements included being the oldest player to lead a team in scoring, surpassing his own mark when he topped New Jersey in scoring with 67 points two seasons ago when he was only 42-years-old. Those two seasons are the best by any player in NHL history over the age of 42.
Some teams like to track the season in 10-game segments. JAGRometer.com did this with the team and Jagr. The legend finished the season strong with 32 points over the last 32 games a testament to his workout regimine when most players are fading as the season ends.
This success also ranked him high league-wide.
Jagr fans, you are not alone in celebrating this season of Jagr. New York Post hockey columnist Larry Brooks posted that JAGR should get strong consideration as league MVP in this column.
http://nypost.com/2016/04/09/panthers-jaromir-jagr-is-unquestionably-the-nhl-mvp/
We’ll discuss Jagr’s outstanding relationship with fans in a future edition of JAGRometer.com. For the second season in a row a family Florida Panthers fans have this thrill of a lifetime to share with friends and family. The Panthers are one of several teams to have a “Shirts Off our Back” promotion. Here Jagr poses with the winners of this year’s jersey in these photos from nhl.com.
The Panthers completed the 82-game regular season with a 47-26-9 record and won the Atlantic division with 103 points, six more than their injury-depleted cross-state rivals in Tampa Bay.
In a few days an even bigger hockey spotlight will shine on Florida as the Panthers will host Game 1 of the opening round of the Stanley Cup playoffs against an opponent to be determined Sunday evening when the New York Islanders play the Philadelphia Flyers.
A win by the Isles means they will play Pittsburgh while the New York Rangers will be the Panthers fist round opponent, otherwise the Brooklyn-based Islanders will be coming to Sunrise.
SInow.com had this article on Jagr and the Panthers, the latest in a series of revealing Jagr articles created by national writers this season.
http://www.si.com/nhl/2016/04/08/florida-panthers-weird-wacky-winning-sports-illustrated-feature
Repeating an article from a few weeks ago, Jagr has figured out the secret to work–make it fun.
The Panthers are idle until Wednesday but one thing is certain–Jagr will work out ever day so that…
THE LEGEND CONTINUES!
Assorted Jagr-related links:
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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:
https://www.facebook.com/68Jagr/?fref=ts
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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