from David Hyde of the Sun Sentinel,

You could start with the 10-pound weight on Jaromir Jagr's hockey stick for training, the eight-pound medicine ball he shoots against the wall or the 45-pound weight vest he straps to his body.

"He does stuff I've never seen," Panthers goalie Roberto Luongo says.

You could start with the 1,000 daily squats he began as a child, the keys he had to open the ice rinks in Dallas and New Jersey, or how he skated on the ice, alone and hard, after a personally frustrating win against the New York Rangers recently.

"I learn just watching him," center Aleksander Barkov says.

Let's start with a Saturday night phone call, though. Maybe this explains the timeless riddle of Jagr. Maybe it shows why three weeks from 44 and more than four years older than any other NHL player, Jagr continues playing at such a high level to lead the first-place Panthers in points.

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