A vote into the NHL All-Star Game is a death sentence as far as Jaromir Jagr is concerned.
Under the NHL's revamped All-Star Game format, four teams will be comprised to represent the league's divisions and fans can vote for four players -- one from the Atlantic, Metropolitan, Central and Pacific divisions -- to captain the respective teams. Jagr is getting a lot of votes, but he doesn't want any of them.
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Jagr, 43, is the leading vote-getter for the Atlantic Division just two days into the process, but he took to Twitter to implore fans to vote for someone else because the new format would "kill me."
The Czech forward may be aging, but he still has a lot of skill left in his hockey stick. Jagr leads the Panthers with eight goals and 12 points this season, which is his 22nd in the NHL. Jagr's linemates, Brandon Pirri, 24, and Aleksander Barkov, 20, weren't even born when he made his NHL debut.
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Jagr is also heating things up off the ice, as he was recently seen in a bedroom selfie next to an 18-year-old model. Though he's surging on and off the hockey rink, Jagr wants no part of the 61st NHL All-Star Game, which emanates from the home of the Predators, the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, on Jan. 31.
If Jagr does get voted in, he runs the risk of playing two games as if the Atlantic Division topples the Metropolitan, they'll move on to face the winner of the showdown between the Central and the Pacific.
Jagr isn't looking for a death sentence and he's getting older, yet the only "old person" behavior he's shown lately is residing in Florida.
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