Jagr Staggers Into Play-Offs With Omsk, Not Rangers, Penguins, Or Oilers In NHL

The first Continental Hockey League (KHL) regular season will finish later this month and a lot of teams are still trying for a top 16 place.

Jeff Z. Klein reported in the New York Times that Jagr and Avangard Omsk are crawling into the KHL playoffs. Klein said, "Tuesday marked the end of a chaotic K.H.L. season for tail-spinning Avangard Omsk, a team in danger of missing the playoffs altogether and with their superstar, Jaromir Jagr, playing dreadfully."

The Edmonton Oilers are so desperate for offence that they believed it was worth investigating the possibility of prying Jagr out of Omsk, according to Dan Barnes, writing in The Edmonton Journal,  but it never got close to being done.

Jagr is under contract for another year and negotiations between the Oilers and Omsk would violate an NHL agreement with the KHL.

Rumors that Jágr could move from the hockey league's Avangard Omsk back to the NHL were monitored around the world, apparently, including, of course the Czech Republic. 

Before he left the New York Rangers for Avangard Omsk, The Oilers reportedly offered Jágr a one-year contract worth $7 million.

Jágr denied in the Czech media that the Oilers were negotiating with him, according to Frantisek Bouc of the Prague Post. Czechs want Jagr to play for his country at the World Championship this spring for the first time since the 2006 Winter Olympics.  

Rangers GM Glen Sather is still getting hell for letting Jagr go, along with Sean Avery, according to according to Jane McManus of The Journal News, who attended Tort's first practice with the Rangers. He wouldn’t address Sean Avery in Hartford, saying it would be tampering, as he still belongs to the Dallas Stars.

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