Jaromir Jäger may have played his last ice hockey game.
At the age of 50, the Czech legend thinks about quitting smoking.
I lack desire and motivation, he tells iSport.
Jaromir Jagger He was signed into the Kladno squad but has yet to play this season.
Instead, as the club owner, he followed the matches from the stands.
At the age of 50, Jaromir Jäger started talking about his desire to retire as a player.
– It’s definitely not close to coming back. To be honest, I don’t even want to go back. I don’t have the motivation, I don’t feel like it, says Jaromir Jäger.
On February 15, earlier this year, he turned 50, and last season he played 48 games for the Kladno team.
Business meetings during the day
Jaromir Jäger now believes that a job as an owner requires a lot of energy and time to be able to train and prepare, before the season there was a lot of organizational work so the team could play.
– I don’t feel like adding anything hockey. Even if I did my best, I wouldn’t even put on all fours. We don’t have bad players on the team, says Jaromir Jäger.
The captain at Kladno is former Montreal Canadiens star Thomas Pelikanik, and the squad also includes longtime SHL player Adam Brodicky from Stockholm.
Jaromir Jäger played three contracts in the NHL over 24 seasons, his last league game for the Calgary Flames on December 31, 2017.
He is a member of the Golden Triple Club and scored the second-most points in the NHL of all time behind Wayne Getzky.
When the World Cup was first played in 1990, the national team was still called Czechoslovakia.
