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Jaromir Jagr listen (help·info) (Cz: Jaromír Jágr, born February 15, 1972 in Kladno, Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic) is an NHL player and current captain for the New York Rangers. Jagr wears the number 68 in honor of the Prague Spring rebellion that occurred in Czechoslovakia in 1968, also the year in which his grandfather died while in prison.

Jagr currently plays with the New York Rangers. He still resides in the Czech Republic during the off-season. His father, also named Jaromír Jágr, is prosperous and owns a chain of hotels. The younger Jagr began skating at age three. At the age of 16, he was playing at the highest level of competition in Czechoslovakia.

Jagr was the first Czechoslovakian player to be drafted by the NHL without first having to defect to the west. He was taken by the Pittsburgh Penguins with the fifth overall pick in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft. He was a supporting player with the powerhouse Penguins that won back-to-back Stanley Cups in 1991 and 1992. He was the youngest player in NHL history, at 19 years of age, to score a goal in the Stanley Cup finals.

During the NHL labor dispute in 2004-05, he played for Kladno in the Czech Republic, and afterward for the Avangard ice-hockey team at Omsk in Russia.

Jagr scored his 1,400th point on a power play goal against the Philadelphia Flyers on March 2, 2006. He is the leading active point scorer among European-born NHL players, and is second on the all-time points list for European players. Jagr's milestone goal pushed him past Jari Kurri into second place all-time, trailing only Stan Mikita. On March 18, 2006 against the Toronto Maple Leafs, Jagr became only the sixth Rangers player in team history to break the 100-point barrier, and became the only Ranger right winger to score 100 points in a season.

On March 24, 2006 against the Florida Panthers, Jagr became the first player in the 2005-06 NHL season to score 50 goals. Jagr has broken the 50-goal plateau two other times.

On March 27, 2006 against the Buffalo Sabres, Jagr had a goal and an assist, which tied both the Rangers' single-season goal record of 52 (Adam Graves, 1993-94) and the Rangers' single season points record of 109 (Jean Ratelle, 1972-73). Two nights later, on March 29, 2006, Jagr passed Ratelle when he was the primary assist on Petr Prucha's first-period goal against the New York Islanders' Rick DiPietro.

On April 8, 2006 against the Boston Bruins, Jagr scored his league-leading 53rd goal of the season, breaking the Rangers' single-season goals record.

After leading the league in points and goals for most of the 2005-06 NHL season, Jagr was passed by the San Jose Sharks duo of Joe Thornton (125 points) and Jonathan Cheechoo (56 goals), losing both the Art Ross and Maurice Richard trophies in the final week of the season. Jagr finished with 123 points, 54 goals, and 24 power-play goals, second in the league in all three categories. He finished third in the league in both assists, with 69, and +/-, at +34. Despite being inched out by Thornton for the Art Ross Trophy and Hart Trophy (league MVP), Jagr won his third Lester B. Pearson Award as the league's outstanding player. However, just as in Washington, playoff success was not to be for Jagr, whose Rangers were swept four games to none by the New Jersey Devils. Jagr suffered a separated shoulder in the third period of the first game of the series, which kept him from playing at his top form for the rest of the series. Jagr had surgery on the shoulder after the Rangers were eliminated from the playoffs.

On October 5, 2006 before the Rangers first game of the 2006/2007 NHL season, Jagr was announced as the new captain of the New York Rangers. The first captain since Mark Messier who retired before the 2005/2006 season.

On November 19, 2006 he scored his 600th career NHL goal on Tampa Bay goalie Johan Holmqvist, making him the 16th player in NHL history to do so. Linemate Brendan Shanahan had scored his 600th goal earlier in the season.