Who was the first North American to play in the Russian professional hockey leagues? A Harvard graduate by the name of Tod Hartje. He wrote a great book about his experiences, too.
Plus, a quick look at how Jaromir Jagr is doing this season, and the growing threat of the KHL.
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A year ago, Brandon Dubinsky became Jaromir Jagr's center pretty much by default when neither Scott Gomez nor Chris Drury could find the way to satisfy No. 68's idiosyncrasies. Now, however, the sophomore pivot has played so well in camp that he...
PRAGUE, Czech Republic - In a different season, it surely
would have been national sports hero Jaromir Jagr - not Scott Gomez - with Tampa Bay's Vincent Lecavalier featured on the posters along a wall near the Rudolfinum by the Vltava River.
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SportsAnna
posted 10/2/2008 from
www.nationalpost.com
Czech superstar Jaromir Jagr is red-hot to start the 2008-09 season, though the setting of his early success is causing grief in the city where he is most idolized in the world.