A 44-Year-Old Florida Panther and 10,000 Rats
Devils lose an NHL regular season game for the ages.
As sometimes magically occurs in sports, disparate elements came together last night in Sunrise, Fla. in the most wonderful of ways, resulting in some fun media coverage. Here for example is today’s Guardian headline, appended to an AP wire story about last night’s 3-2 home victory by the Florida Panthers over the New Jersey Devils.
Thanks to a pair of assists, Panthers star Jaromir Jagr, 44, became the oldest NHL player to reach the 60-points season plateau. The Czech native has previously indicated that he hopes to keep playing professionally until he’s 50.
Meanwhile, in the third period, the home team was hit with a pair of delay-of-game penalties after fans ignored referee and scoreboard warnings and threw souvenir rubber rats on to the ice after the second and third Panthers goals.
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