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Jaromir Jagr signed with a Russian team one day after parting ways with the New York Rangers. If you remember, he played for the Russian team the Avangard Omsk during the lockout shortened season in 2004-05.

Well Now Jagr is returning to the Omsk. He signed a deal with them yesterday. No one specified the exact terms of the signing but it is believed to be a tax free $7 million which equals out to about $11 million for a season in the NHL. Not a bad deal.

From the New York Post:

“It was the toughest decision in my life, hockeywise. … No question about it. I hate making changes,” Jagr told The Canadian Press.

“I’m thankful for the three years I had in New York,” Jagr said. “They were great years. I understand that I’m older and the team decided to go in a different direction because they couldn’t get the deal done.”

It was rumored that Jagr had some options to continue playing in the NHL.  The Penguins, Oilers, and Rangers were all looking to sign the 36 year old but none of them were able to close deal.

Happy trails to Jagr. Good luck in Russia. This will probably be the last time we hear about him. As far as Americans are concerned, he’s retired.

Wayne Gretzky and Janet Jones Gretzky have a 19 year old (shes legal) daughter named Paulina Gretzky who made an appearance at the Ford Wayne Gretzky Classic in Clarksburg, Ontario. These are some pics of her during the first round of this even that brought out some pretty good entertaining celebrities to play golf like Charles Barkley, Jim Balsillie and Alan Thicke.

So I really can’t decide if I think shes hot or not. Here is her myspace to help you decide.

I think if I just saw her walking down the street and didn’t know whos daughter she was I would probably think she was cute but I don’t think I would want to get with Wayne Gretzky’s daughter. Wait a minute, Wayne Gretzky is still rich right? Hey Paulina, call me.

What do you guys think? Hot or not?

[Images via Puck Daddy]

Sean Avery has been an interesting character ever since he joined the NHL. The New York Rangers Dallas Stars bad boy is in the news again, only this time it’s kind of disgusting.

Right now the skater is in Paris putting his charm on bloggers. No not guys. I know thats what you were thinking about the fashion intern at vogue but no. He was trying to kick it to fashion writer Susan Kirschbaum, and when she asked him if he was sure he wasn’t gay he responded in a way that is fitting of this guy:

“I’m going home to jerk off to you now.” Aww/eww. A tipster tells us that Avery added “And that’s a big compliment,” and later text messaged Kirschbaum saying that “the session is going well.”

Wow guys. Take notes. Now wonder women love this guy.

This weird comment really shouldn’t surprise anyone though. He is pretty much one of the weirdest/wildest/most racist guys in the NHL.

Here are a few of the highlights of this guys wild career via Dallas Stars blog:

Here he is saying that union leader Bob Goodenow “brainwashed him” and that the players won nothing by going through the lockout.

Here he is insulting French Canadian players _ something he would later apologize for.

Here he is in a battle with Georges Laraque, in which Laraque accused Avery of using a racial slur and Avery accused Laraque of making it all up.

Here he is getting fined for diving _ and then getting fined for complaining about the fine for diving.

Here the NHL changes the rules for unsportsmanlike conduct after Avery tried to distract Devils goalie Martin Brodeur by waving his stick in Bordeur’s face.

And here is his blog for Men’s Vogue Magazine and why he chose to be an intern for them this summer.

I rest my case. So what have we learned today? Not too much we didn’t already know except that if you ever meet Sean Avery, don’t shake his hand.

I’m glad to see that at least one ref is finally admitting the truth.

[Image via Cameltap]

It was reported by many, including myself, that Barry Melrose will be leaving ESPN to take the head coaching position of the Tampa Bay Lightning. ESPN made a tribute to him dubbed “The Best of Barry.” He deserves it. Despite the fact that ESPN likes soccer now more than they like hockey, Barry was still one of the best on the station.

When you think about what kind of careers would be cool if only you could paid to do them certain ones that immediately come to mind. Careers like being the guy that tests new female “talent” for porn careers, medical marijuana tester, or being that guy that moves the chains at football games would be great but Cameron Hughes’ job is right up there.

Get this, professional teams pay this guy to come to their games, act crazy and cheer excessively for the home team. This guy gets booked for many different teams across different sports. How does one go about getting a job like this??

“I’m that guy—the funny, happy, dancing, possibly very drunk guy you’ve seen at the ballpark at least once,” says Hughes, adding that he himself never drinks on the job unless you count the three Red Bulls he downs as a pre-game ritual.

Baseball teams like the Toronto Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers pay him an average of $2,000 a game to do his thing, as do N.B.A. teams like the L.A. Lakers and New Orleans Hornets and N.H.L. teams like the Ottawa Senators and Toronto Maple Leafs. All told, he works about 80 to 90 major- and minor-league games a year, and difficult as it may be to believe, Hughes makes a comfortable six-figure salary just by being a crazy sports fan.

It’s very surprising that teams actually pay people to do things like this but I guess anything is possible if people can make careers posting pics of half naked bitches on blogs all day… .

[Portfolio via The Big Lead]

Barry Melrose, who happens to be one of my favorite ESPN analysts, is leaving ESPN for sunnier pastors in Florida. Now those guys he is pictured with above will be his rivals.

The Tampa Bay Lightning announced him as their new head coach today and the worldwide leader in sports won’t be the same. Now we will have to be subjected to the hockey analysis of Steve Levy, John Buccigross, or maybe even this guy. Someone help us please!

The highlight of Barry’s NHL coaching career was in 1993 when he led the Los Angeles Kings to the Stanley Cup finals. There was some guy on that squad named Wayne Gretzky who may have helped just little bit though.

I have no problem with Celebrity charity games.  Softball is cool, golf is alright, basketball is usually pretty funny but when it comes to sports like hockey, they need to just leave it to the pros.

Alan Thicke of TV’s “Growing Pains” was one of the featured Celebs at Hockeyfest in St. Louis last weekend and he was probably better off not showing up.  Check out some of his questionable hockey moves.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwT567vdSBI]

Thanks to Puck Daddy for this one.

Puck Daddy discovered this but no one knows exactly where this hockey fight is from but either way, this is the stuff that hockey fights should be! Crazy!!!

By now everyone should know that the Detroit Red Wings are the 2008 Stanley Cup Champions.

After the Wings won the championship, of course there were a lot of pictures taken a lot of celebrating but according to some people, Red Wings Goalie Dominik Hasek was having a little bit too much fun. This is via Yahoo Answers:

If your talking about the “V” for victory using two fingers, it does have meaning, depending on which way your palm faces. Palm outwards facing someone else means Peace, palm facing you while back of your hand faces the other person basically mean “F@K U, i’ve got mine“.

This symbol was derived during the middle ages when england was at war with France. Bowmen, or Long Bowmen (aka, archers) use two fingers to draw back their bow string and were the deadliest unit of their time. They were considered a prime targets by the emeny and, when captured, their drawstring fingers would be removed. Whenever an archer survived capture, and march through a couquered city, they would hold their drawstring hand up, back of hand facing outward, with their two drawstring fingers extended upward. This was their way of telling the enemt F U! I’ve still got mine!”

The spelling isn’t that great but you get the idea.

What do you guys think? Was Hasek trying to say fuck you to everyone?

[Source: Flatusyahu]

[Image via DetNews]