{"id":469025,"date":"2023-11-11T08:45:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T12:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=469025"},"modified":"2023-11-11T08:45:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T12:45:55","slug":"pittsburgh-set-to-retire-jagrs-number-68-jersey-next-year","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/pittsburgh-set-to-retire-jagrs-number-68-jersey-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh set to retire Jagr&#8217;s number 68 jersey next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins shared that they are retiring Jaromir Jagr&#8217;s No. 68 jersey in a ceremony in February next year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Penguins, I&#8217;m coming home,&#8221; Jagr shared in a video posted on social media.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Pittsburgh Penguins star Jaromir Jagr is having his number 68 retired and raised to the rafters on February 18th, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Jagr joins fellow legends Mario Lemieux (#66) and Michel Briere (#21) as the only Penguins to have their numbers retired.<\/p>\n<p>He was drafted fifth overall\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BkU0cMIwfP\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/BkU0cMIwfP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Scooze News (@ScoozeNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScoozeNews\/status\/1723085330717286478?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jaromir (51) appeared in 1,733 career regular-campaign matches in the National Hockey League over 24 campaigns. Jagr ranks 4<sup>th<\/sup> all-time in matches played and goals (766) and 5<sup>th<\/sup> in assists (1,155), and only Wayne Gretzky (2,857) has earned more points than him, who has 1,921. No player in the league\u2019s history has more match-winning goals than Jagr&#8217;s 135.<\/p>\n<p>He became a superstar with Pittsburgh over 11 campaigns, triumphing with the Stanley Cup 2 times and earning 1,079 points in 806 matches.<\/p>\n<p>But his period with the organization ended strangely in 2001 when the Penguins traded him to the Washington Capitals to begin a rebuild. In 2011, he had the chance to return to the Penguins but preferred to join the Philadelphia Flyers, and Pittsburgh supporters even booed him while playing for the Flyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins shared that they are retiring Jaromir Jagr&#8217;s No. 68 jersey in a ceremony in February next year. &#8220;Penguins, I&#8217;m coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":469026,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17844,16949],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[22037,17847,6811],"acf":{"announce":"Penguins will retire his jersey on February 18th.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/469025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469025"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/469025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469029,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/469025\/revisions\/469029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469025"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=469025"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=469025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}