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Well, it didn't take long for Jaromir Jagr to find another team to call home in his NHL return after the Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings took themselves out of the mix. Instead of going home to Pittsburgh, he will apparently being heading to their closest rival - the Philadelphia Flyers. The Flyers' official Twitter account announced the news about an hour and a half into free agency that general manager Paul Holmgren inked Jagr to a contract. TSN's Darren Dreger is reporting the deal is worth $3.3 million for one year.
So, clearly for somebody that was willing to take less money than he could get by staying in the KHL, he wasn't necessarily willing to take less than the highest offer. That has to be a swift kick in a no-nos to the Pittsburgh Penguins, who reached out to their former franchise winger in an effort to close out his career where it started and get No. 68 lifted to the rafters to hang forever next to No. 66. Instead, Jagr may have burned a bridge or two with the club he won two Stanley Cups with alongside mentor Mario Lemieux by going to the team hated by them the most.
Is the opening of NHL free agency ever not interesting?
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