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This article of Ron Francis talking about Jagr is also quite funny:
http://calgaryherald.com/sports/hock...to-be-the-best

“I was out with an injury and I remember we played a game in Long Island and he came off and he was frustrated. Things weren’t going well, and he kind of displayed that frustration on the bench,” recalled Francis, a teammate and mentor to Jagr for eight seasons with the Pittsburgh Penguins. “I grabbed him after and said ‘You and I need to talk,’ and our talk was basically me giving him (crap), to be honest. Not trying to give him crap, but trying to teach him that he’s a leader on the team and he can’t display that openly and he has to channel that in a different way.

“Usually when you give a guy crap for 10 or 15 minutes, they’re not happy with you. But I finished the discussion and he said, ‘Thank you.’ He said, ‘I need to hear this. Nobody tells me this. This is good stuff. I need to hear this. So thank you very much.’