Gretzky crying after Czechs beat Canada -Nagano 1998

yeahh ..big times for our Czech hockey !
we beat Canucks and even Don Cherry got his praise.

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• gretzky
• crying
• canada
• czech
• nagano
• 1998
• semifinals

[milanSK1980]

Jagr is cool :)!!

Reporter - is this on of your absolute highlights?

Jagr - one of them, one of them :)

Yea, stanley cup 91 and 92, olympic gold 1998, world champion 2005 and 2010. Art Ross Trophy (most points) 5 times, Hart Trophy (MVP) once.

One of the best players ever.

[napajedlacek]

@milanSK1980 -Take se me libi ,jake dal vecne a uvolnene interview:-) Jagr je perla ,dlouhe haro a detsky usmev :-) a stale je jeden z lepsich hracu v NHL .- ve 40 letech .

[honzas23]

Great memories for me. I was about 16, during the czech games there were not lessons and teachers arguing with each other who will be in the class with TV set :D. Regarging to this times it was coming of golden times. This team had a huge spirit and what is more it wasnt just about NHL players- who knew about Hejduk,Prochazka,Rucinsky? I think since around that times till about 2001, 2002 czech leaugue was considered second best- better than sweden,russian. And come on people there is no

[napajedlacek]

@honzas23 - good for you ,I was 22 and had to work in state of Mississippi ,cleaning floor at Walmart store for some polish mafia guys ,who paid 1700 $ a month with no tax ..,a lot for 1998 Czech Republic - 88 000 kc a month was a good money ,but very hard work every night.anyway ..we Czechs saw the match ,got a one beer and went to work ..- nobody knew about hockey there,blacks thought they playing on glass ,not the ice.:-)we told them,hey dude,-same ice ,as in your fridge !.i di dnot enjoy it

[pchoooooooo]

I'd be crying too if I was the greatest hockey player of all time, and my dumbass coach didn't put me into the game deciding shootout!

[yngwie503]

Now that's a Jagr Mullet!

[WolfhoundMercenary]

@mpsandal Don't give us that bullshit. Not a single Czech had a problem admitting you were simply better.

However, same couldn't have been said about you during the WC 2005. Ryan Smythe anyone?

[Jonger1150]

I never saw the crying.

[kulba21]

ALso remember going into this tournament the the favourites to win were Canada, USA, and Sweden and none of them even ended up with a medal of any colour.

[kulba21]

Remember how cool those Roots hats were for a very brief period of time??

[jimbodiced]

@Flowerpunkt And how do you figure that? The only BIT of luck they got was when Belarus beat out Sweden (because I was convinced Sweden was the best team in that tournament up until that fluke loss). If we had of played Sweden in the semi final, it MAY HAVE changed the course of history. But that is also just a lot of "ifs" and "buts". I feel Canada was destined to win in 2002. From the slow start, right up to the domination in the gold medal game. It might as well of been written in the stars.