Somehow, someway it always seemed like future first ballot hall of famer Jaromir Jagr would play in the NHL forever. At age 45, Jagr was the oldest player to play in an NHL game since Gordie Howe nearly 40 years ago. Unfortunately, even cult heroes and living legends like Jagr always succumb to father time.
Putting Jagr’s legacy into proper context is difficult in the sense that he is such an iconic player. Over the course of his 25-year career in the NHL, including a three-year hiatus to the KHL in the middle of it, he accumulated 1921 points.