Jagr not ready to retire from hockey

PITTSBURGH — Maybe it was Jaromir Jagr’s last game with the New York Rangers. It almost certainly wasn’t Jagr’s last hockey game.

Jagr, a five-time NHL scoring champion, is facing an uncertain future following the Rangers’ season-ending 3-2 overtime loss to Pittsburgh on Sunday in Game 5 of their second-round playoff series.

While the 36-year-old Jagr’s contract carries into next season only if he wins the Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoffs MVP, almost an impossibility now that the Rangers have been eliminated, he plans to keep playing hockey.

Jagr expects hostile crowd in Pittsburgh

GREENBURGH, N.Y. — Jaromir Jagr sort of knows what to expect from Steel City fans who used to cheer his every move when he starred with Mario Lemieux and the high-flying Pittsburgh Penguins in the 1990s.