Jaromir Jagr had a signing at the Roosevelt Field Mall today. He arrived late because of Renney’s emergency practice.

He was a perfect sweetheart, honestly. He signed and was friendly and talked with people and took pictures and was just about the most gracious athlete I’ve ever met at a public signing. I have heard people say so many times that he is grumpy or moody. And after losing two games and having an emergency practice and a late flight, I was prepared to be understanding, but I needn’t have worried!!!

He signed a picture I took of him scoring a goal on Feb 24 against the Panthers (its in my photo album, aptly named) and a puck. For Jo he signed a puck, and also a Macfarlane action figure that my Mum got her for Christmas, and finally a card which is number 68. If any don’t know number 68 is important to Jagr because that was the year when Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia and the Czechs had a spring revolution (in my blogs, if you search for it (if you care) I did a report on a Czech photographer named Josef Koudelka who documented that invasion http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=25769063&blogID=325897901&Mytoken=1F7E4805-4F7F-490F-98CCCCAF3FEF84F359201030 ) Ayway Jo had received the card from a very kind man we met at the Ovechkin signing earleir this year.




Jaromir Jagr posing :^)


Jaromir Jagr and Jo


Jaromir Jagr and I


Jaromir Jagr signing


Cheers,

Let’s Go RANGERS!!
BLEED BLUE!!