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28 July 2008
Pavel Lysenkov
Jager is from Omsk, Ovechkin is from Moscow
Jaromir Jagr studies Russian and talks with Ovechkin
This is an excerpt from a large two-page interview with Jaromir Jagr. Jager is being interviewed by Pavel Lysenkov from Soviet sport, and I have only translated the portion where Pavel calls Ovechkin up and has Jager talk with him:
....Jager and I go to dinner together. I decide to conduct a "hotline", where #68 will answer questions from the readers of Soviet Sport. While Yaromir orders chicken and spaghetti, I decide to call... Alexander Ovechkin. I'd like to know what these two superstars might have to talk about?
"Jagr-is from Omsk, Ovechkin is from Moscow." Jagr ascertains before call.
"Hello Sasha!" he puts the stress on "sha", and the Czech speaks loudly and switches into English. "How are things going for you?"
"Yea everthing is okay, Jaromir. I'm resting up here in Moscow."
"Only resting? When I flew into Omsk I read in Soviet Sport that you are doing some fitness training at the Dynamo camp."
"Well yeah. It is just that my personal trainer works at that club. And you know I'm no stranger in Novogorsk, since I basically grew up in Dynamo. And how are things going for you?"
"Not bad. I'm having supper and waiting for Avangard to return from a meeting in Croatia. Tomorrow is the first training session of the entire team. It is not going to be easy for me" Jaromir laughs.
"How long will you be playing in Russia?"
"Two years. And then I will return to the Czech republic. You have to understand, I cannot play anymore in the NHL anymore. You are so much better than me. What can I do in a league when Ovechkin gets 65 goals and I only can get 25? I was so bad, so like a real man I couldn't NOT leave." Jagr nearly falls from his chair from laughter. Sasha laughs together with him. "If you had hit only 40 goals, and I 30, then I might have thought about staying for one more year. But now I understand that there is nothing left for me to attain in the NHL. Ovechkin is there."
"Well, Jardo, I wish you huge success in Russia."
"And I wish that you win the Stanley Cup!" Jagr exclaims. He hangs up the receiver and turns to me:
"Well, how did that go?"
"First class! Especially the part about the goals."
"Why not? That is the way it is. This coming season Ovechkin is going to get probably 70 goals. How can you keep up with that? I just wonder where this guy gets all his energy. It can't all be from training. You have to be born with it. They broke his nose, and Ovechkin out of rage hammers in 4 goals against Montreal. How do you repeat that? He is a one of a kind."
Click on icon above for original story in Russian at sovsport.ru