NHL Insider: Flames one of teams trying to sign Jaromir Jagr

Hockey Insider Elliotte Friedman joined NHL Network on Monday to touch on the Jaromir Jagr situation. 

Approaching 50 years of age, Jagr remains without an NHL contract with less than a month until preseason begins. He remains in phenomenal shape, having played all 82 games for the Florida Panthers last season, notching 16 goals.

Friedman has some interesting quotes about the situation:

“I know some teams that have kind of talked and taken a look at it,” noted Friedman. “I think Calgary has been one that has kind of looked at it. One of his former coaches, Glen Gulutzan, is coaching up there.

“From what I hear, I think he’s patient enough to wait for the right opportunity because if it doesn’t come in the NHL, maybe it comes overseas. Maybe he goes and plays in the Olympics. Or maybe he starts, as he’s talked about, in his local team from the Czech League, and comes back somewhere during the year."

“I can tell you that there were a couple of teams that said to me today that they’d heard that maybe Anaheim might be interested, but I checked with that and I was told that’s not the case. It kind of made sense to me in some ways because Anaheim is a bit of a grinding team and Jagr could fit into that, but again I was told that the Ducks are not there."

“So the teams are waiting to see what he eventually decides to do.”

With Calgary being a young and inexperienced NHL club, it makes sense they would try and bring in a veteran to help coach some of the young players.