Jaromir Jagr's Hall of Fame bid will have to wait

Jaromir Jagr's career is unmatched for its durability

Including his time in the NHL, as well as the various European leagues he has played in, Jagr has appeared in 2,264 regular-season games going back to the 1988-89 season in the Czech Republic, while also scoring 958 goals.

He scored 766 of those goals in the NHL, which ranks fourth all-time, while his 1,921 total points in the NHL are second all-time. 

Along with the NHL and Czech Republic, he has also spent time playing professionally in Russia (KHL) and one random game in Italy during the 1994-95 lockout. 

The biggest what-if of Jagr's career is what his career goal total would have looked like had he not left the NHL between the 2008 and 2011 seasons when he was still playing at a top-tier level. Add in those three seasons, as well as the two full seasons he lost to lockouts (the entire 2004-05 season and half of the 1994-95 and 2012-13 seasons), and that is five years of NHL hockey that he missed. It is not a stretch to imagine that he could have broken Wayne Gretzky's all-time goals record and been the player that Alex Ovechkin spent all of these years chasing. 

Jagr is most known for his time with the Pittsburgh Penguins, where he won his two Stanley Cups, but also played for several other teams, including the Washington Capitals, New York Rangers, Dallas Stars, Calgary Flames, New Jersey Devils, Philadelphia Flyers and Florida Panthers.