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Originally Posted by Love
What evidence do we have that supports this?
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Just looking at the skill set required to play in the NHL these days. If you can't keep up to the pace of the game, there just isn't room for you in the game anymore. The game has become a kamikaze track meet out there, and those with footspeed problems are getting dropped quickly.
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And just last season Jagr was possession boosting a youngster named Sasha Barkov who is head as shoulders above a player like Sam Bennett offensively and defensively. He did for Barkov what Versteeg & Brouwer have proven they couldn't do for Bennett. We would be very lucky to have to "saddle" Bennett with Jagr. It would do wonders for his development.
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So wait, you're saying that Barkov is head and shoulders above Bennett in every facet of the game, but it was Jagr who made Barkov better, not the other way around? I would argue that Barkov did more for Jagr than Jagr did for Barkov. You're suggesting that Bennett, the weaker player offensively and defensively, is going to become a better player having a slower less defensively aware player on his line, because he's Jagr of course? We would be lucky to saddle Bennett with the 2007 version of Jagr. The 2017 version, not so much.
Please review Jagr's goals from last season, just so we can get by the sentimentality of what Jagr once was, and instead focus on what he is today.