Jaromir Jagr Players Quotations

Of course it's a big honor. The Rangers are an original six team. A lot of great players played hear -- Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier -- a lot of great players. It's a big honor to me.

He's a great guy. He's not only good coach, but I think he understands the life of hockey, how important is it off the ice, to even treat the players off the ice, not only on the ice. The chemistry on team, it's great. It's so far been fun for everybody here.

I am happy for it. Look at the great players here in the past 80 years.

We need some scoring and we need some defense, too. There are a lot of players around the league that see this team is going in a different direction than before.

The team decided after one month after I came here they were going to sell everybody. After the trade deadline, there were only two players left on the team from when I came here.

The players don't play the position game as much as we used to play. A lot of young guys go up and down, shoot the puck, go for the rebounds. You're getting tired quicker because the body has to react where the puck is going to go. You cannot read it, because you don't have the puck on your stick.

To me, it was fast, too. But that's the way it's going to be. I think it's going to be even faster when the players get into shape. Don't forget they didn't play for a year. So heads up.

In international competition, you're facing the best players on every line. I think the Olympics is tougher for the goalie. I've got a lot of confidence in the way he plays. This is the least concern in my mind right now.

The New York Rangers don't have much experience in the playoffs the last years but the players are different. You have to forget about what happened the day before and think forward, never be too satisfied and never be too angry.

They won the game for us, that's for sure. They had three or four power plays, then five-on-three. The one thing is they don't score, plus they were using their top players and getting frustrated, too.

There was so many good players in one place, ... Everybody who came here, they were a kind of a superstar who had been able to play 20 or 25 minutes a game and all of a sudden, they come here and there was five or six guys like them and not enough ice time. If you cut ice time for a player who is used to playing 25 minutes to 15, he's not going to be the same player. I think it hurts a team.

It's a big honor. Just look at all the players that played for the New York Rangers. Obviously, it's a big honor for me.

It's a big satisfaction. Look at all the great players here in the past 80 years.