KLADNO, Czechia — In Kladno, Czechia, 30 kilometers northwest of Prague, sits a 5,200-seat hockey arena in a clearing in the woods. This is the town and the rink that made Jaromir Jagr. Before he piled up 1,921 points in 1,733 NHL games and won five Art Ross trophies and two Stanley Cups, Jagr was the next big thing in this Czech town. And now at 52 years old, 36 years after he first played a game for Kladno, the NHL legend is the one keeping this team alive.
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On a Tuesday night in early October, Rytiri Kladno, the Czech Extraliga team that Jagr played for as a teenager and
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