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Revisiting Jagr’s pre-draft scouting report

It's always fun revisiting scouts' pre-draft scouting reports on eventual NHL stars.

Last summer I took a look at a few pre-draft scouting reports on eventual Penguins players, and shared reports on guys like Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, and Marc-Andre Fleury.

A Reddit user on Monday shared a picture from The Hockey News' 1990 draft preview magazine, where a young, "not real flashy" forward by the name of Jaromir Jagr was projected to go No. 6 in the draft.

Here's what they said about him:

"Czechoslovakian left winger Jaromir Jagr is considered by some scouts to be the best player eligible for this year's draft.