At the age of 40, Jaromir Jagr still looks up to Mario Lemieux, both figuratively and literally. With his 1,642nd point in the NHL, Jaromir Jagr recently moved past Joe Sakic and into eighth place on the NHL’s all-time points list.
While passing Sakic is certainly noteworthy, passing the next guy on the list will mean much, much more to Jagr. You see, the next player on the all-time points list is Mario Lemieux. On several occasions Jagr has stated that Lemieux was his idol and that he wouldn’t be the player he is today if it weren’t for Lemieux.
In one of the more bizarre statistics in NHL history, before Lemieux came out of retirement during the 2000-01 season, Jagr had assisted on exactly 66 of Lemieux’s goals and Lemieux had assisted on exactly 68 of Jagr’s goals: their respective uniform numbers.
Of course, once Lemieux came back, they went on to assist on many more of each others’ tallies until Jagr was traded away to the Capitals. Jagr and Lemieux certainly would not be as high on the all-time points list if it weren’t for each other.
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Jaromir Jagr Eyes Mario Lemieux on NHL’s All-Time Points List
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