Jaromir Jagr has been playing professional ice hockey for 37 years. After nearly two decades in the NHL, he returned to his homeland, where he represents HC Kladno. It is now known when his sports career will end.

Jaromir Jagr is finally calling it a career. The 52-year-old NHL legend and former Rangers star is currently playing for HC Rytiri Kladno of the Czech Extraliga, which he owns. He sparked the retirement talk after referencing his “last season” in an Instagram post on Wednesday.

Jaromír Jágr, who played in the NHL from 1990 to 2018, announced that he intends to finally retire from professional hockey after his 37th season.

Former New Jersey Devils forward and one of hockey's greatest players of all time, Jaromir Jagr, has announced that he is going to retire after the 2024-25 season. Jaromir Jagr will play his final season of professional hockey this year for Kladno of the Czech league,

N ews broke Thursday morning that former NHL superstar Jaromír Jágr intends to retire at the end of the season. Jágr had been playing in Czechia for Rytíři Kladno the last fe

That marked the end of his 24-year, 1,733-game NHL career, but it didn’t signal the end of his days playing at the professional level. Jagr has been Kladno’s majority owner since 2011. The fifth-overall pick of the Penguins in 1990 played his first two professional seasons with the club in the Czechoslovak top league before being drafted and also took the ice there during NHL lockouts in 1994,