Hockey legend Jaromir Jagr is looking fanatics to lend a hand the folk of Ukraine forward of a fundraising recreation he’s organizing for the staff he owns within the Czech league.
“We want extra lend a hand, that is why I am asking you,” Jagr mentioned on a video posted on his Twitter account.
Jagr introduced final week that his staff, Kladno, will transfer its ultimate regular-season recreation on Tuesday to an 18,000-plus-seat enviornment in Prague from its 5,200-seat house in Chomutov with price tag proceeds benefitting Ukrainian households searching for asylum within the Czech Republic.
Jagr, 50, continues to play some video games for Kladno.
“The final 10 days, the sector has modified,” Jagr mentioned. “There’s hundreds of thousands of other folks leaving Ukraine simply to live on.”
Jagr has lengthy worn the No. 68 to mark 1968 — the yr Soviet tanks stormed into Czechoslovakia to quell the Prague Spring insurgency that had quickly introduced social reform.
His grandfather died between the beginning of the rebellion and its brutally swift conclusion — prior to Jagr was once born.
“No less than my grandfather died in freedom,” Jagr advised The Related Press in a 1998 interview.
Jagr grew up learning a Soviet-dictated curriculum that incorporated some Russian language — and despised it. He carried President Ronald Reagan’s image in a schoolbook, dreaming of the day he would transfer to the USA and enjoy actual freedom.
Jagr’s fundraiser comes as he’s at the verge of being overtaken for 3rd at the NHL all-time goal-scoring listing through Russian Washington Capitals celebrity Alex Ovechkin.
Ovechkin has 764 occupation targets, two in the back of Jagr.
— With recordsdata from The Related Press
