{"id":335,"date":"2014-04-30T15:44:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T19:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/?p=335"},"modified":"2014-04-30T15:44:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T19:44:42","slug":"devils-resign-jaromir-jagr-to-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/2014\/04\/30\/devils-resign-jaromir-jagr-to-one-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Devils re-sign Jaromir Jagr to one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/files\/2014\/02\/jaromirjagr.jpg\" alt=\"jaromirjagr\" width=\"594\" height=\"475\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/files\/2014\/02\/jaromirjagr.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/files\/2014\/02\/jaromirjagr-522x418.jpg 522w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/files\/2014\/02\/jaromirjagr-500x400.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe New Jersey Devils have re-signed right winger Jaromir Jagr to a one-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Jagr, 43, proved he still had plenty in the tank this past season scoring 24 goals and 67 points for the Devils while playing an average of 19 minutes a game. Jagr appeared in all 82 games for the Devils last season.<\/p>\n<p>Currently seventh in all-time goals, Jagr can\u00a0move up to sixth with three goals. \u00a0He is just 12 points behind Phil Esposito.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>IT&#39;S OFFICIAL! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23NJDevils&amp;src=hash\">#NJDevils<\/a> have re-signed right wing Jaromir Jagr to a new contract.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New Jersey Devils (@NHLDevils) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLDevils\/statuses\/461570226686279681\">April 30, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The news is not all that surprising. Jagr previously expressed interest in returning to the Devils for the 2014-2015 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike I said, I like it here a lot,\u201d Jagr said following the Devils season finale. \u201cNo question about it. At my age, it\u2019s pretty tough to change teams year after year. It took me at least 15 to 20 games to get used to the players. It\u2019s not easy to play in this league, plus you have to get used to new players and new system. It\u2019s tough for me and I don\u2019t have many games left. So why waste 20 extra games?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Jersey Devils have re-signed right winger Jaromir Jagr to a one-year deal. Jagr, 43, proved he still had plenty in the tank this past season scoring 24 goals and 67 points for the Devils while playing an average of 19 minutes a game. Jagr appeared in all 82 games for the Devils last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[11,47,5],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl-news","tag-front","tag-jaromir-jagr","tag-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}