{"id":458507,"date":"2018-01-29T18:31:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T19:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=458507"},"modified":"2025-07-18T09:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T09:14:09","slug":"jaromir-jagr-clears-waivers-to-retire-from-nhl-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=458507","title":{"rendered":"Jaromir Jagr clears waivers, to retire from NHL: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Jaromir Jagr of the Calgary Flames looks on during the second period of a game against the Anaheim Ducks at Honda Center on Dec. 29, 2017\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-license-id=\"416077\" data-portal-copyright=\"GETTY IMAGES\" src=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/jags1k-1.jpg\" title=\"Jaromir Jagr of the Calgary Flames looks on during the second period of a game against the Anaheim Ducks at Honda Center on Dec. 29, 2017\" \/><\/p>\n<p> CALGARY \u2014 Jaromir Jagr cleared waivers Monday, a day after being waived by the Calgary Flames. <\/p>\n<p> The expectation now is the veteran forward will be placed on unconditional waivers for the purpose of terminating his NHL contract. That would allow the 45-year-old Czech native to return to Europe and potentially play for HC Kladno in the Czech League, a franchise he co-owns. <\/p>\n<p> Jagr signed a one-year contract with the Flames on Oct. 4, but had just one goal and six assists in 22 games. <\/p>\n<p> Jagr has recorded 766 goals and 1,921 points over his NHL career, good for third and second all-time in those categories. <\/p>\n<p> He has also played in 1,733 career games, behind only Mark Messier (1,756) and Gordie Howe (1,767) in league history. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><br \/>\n<iframe title=\"Top 10 Jaromir Jagr moments\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hxGOSyFQets?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>CALGARY \u2014 Jaromir Jagr cleared waivers Monday, a day after being waived by the Calgary Flames. The expectation now is the veteran forward will be <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=458507\" title=\"Jaromir Jagr clears waivers, to retire from NHL: Reports\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":458509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=458507"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458512,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458507\/revisions\/458512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/458509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}