Jaromir Jagr is 44 years old today, when he played his first game in the NHL 43% of the teams in the league today had yet to play their first game. Around 35% of the players in the league today weren’t even born.
Did we mention he’s still playing pretty damn good on a first place team?
Let that all sink in for a minute.
To help celebrate Jagr’s birthday the Florida Panthers, the latest stop on his round-the-world tour, presented him with a cake featuring half of a Panthers jersey and half of a Czech Republich national team jersey, complete with fake laces stitching the two together up the middle (I especially like the candy shoulder patch, nice attention to detail!)
Birthday cake for @68Jagr pic.twitter.com/eK03cdkv41
— Florida Panthers (@FlaPanthers) February 15, 2016
Jaromir’s not the first to get a jersey cake (although I’ve yet to see a Franken-jersey cake quite like this one), my wife surprised me with this swell Toronto Blue Jays cake for my 30th birthday a few Summers ago:
Happy birthday Jaromir! May you play forever.
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