"Jagr: 'I want to say thanks to my girlfriend. She's too young to remember when I played in Pittsburgh.'"
This pokes fun at not only his record with the Penguins, which he clearly has some issue with but also at the age gap between this now 52-year-old businessman and the 29-year-old former model and his girlfriend, Dominika Branisova, who would have been about 5 when Jagr left Pittsburgh.
Jaromir Honored In Special Way During Jersey Retirement
Aside from getting a chance to tell jokes about his romantic life, Jagr was also honored in a special yet uniquely appropriate way. When he goes out onto the ice, he is joined by the current Pittsburgh Penguins who are all wearing the legend's signature mullet.
"Now that's a lot of mullets.