general manager “Avant-garde” Anton Kurianov told that the Omsk club would be happy to organize media events with the team’s former striker Jaromir Jagr, but there has been no communication with him since February 2022.
Jagr played for Avangard in the 2004/05 season and from 2008 to 2011. As part of the Omsk club, he won the European Cup and the Continental Cup. For Avangard, Jagr played 224 matches in which he scored 93 goals and provided 124 assists.
—Is Jaromir Jagr communicating with anyone from Avangard? You have forgotten ?
— After February 2022, there was no communication with him. We were in contact, he sent his greetings through mutual agents who brought him to Russia. They asked questions about business, had some thoughts about collaboration with his club “Kladno”.
The Omsk fan loves and knows Jagr. We would love to do media events with him, just as he was well received in Pittsburgh this season. But it was significant when Jaromir first signed goalkeeper Julius Hudacek to Kladno, and then immediately canceled him under public pressure, because the goalkeeper played in Barys after February 2022. This shows what it’s like the atmosphere that currently reigns towards us in the Czech Republic.
— You finished your playing career at Kladno. Did you become friends with Jagr there?
— When I got there, Jaromir himself was performing in Calgary. He was injured, he was killed there and he returned home later. He did not play, but was in Kladno as an official. And we saw each other quite a bit, I spent three months there. But we had a good conversation in November 2020, when we met Jagr in Moscow during the anniversary match. On this day, Avangard performed with Ak Bars at the Dynamo arena. We met Jaromir, as well as Max Sushinsky. We had a very warm conversation. But in February 2022, all communication stopped,” Kuryanov told .
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