Very very interesting piece. Not only the bit about Pittsburgh fans, but also the story of his signing:

Other teams were offering two years, but not really pushing hard. Holmgren had a lot of his players call Jaromir. Chris Pronger really made it sound like a great situation.

"Jaromir asked me and I told him from my time there that it was a great organization and (Flyers chairman Ed) Snider was a class act."

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"Based on what we did, I think he knew he was going to be a top line guy," Holmgren said. "Although, he asked me, ‘Why did you trade those two guys (Jeff Carter and Mike Richards)? I thought they were two good players.’ Through that conversation he realized he was going to be one of the better forwards on the team."

And how invaluable this is:

"(Flyers assistant coach) Joey Mullen told me that Jaromir was a rink rat when he was younger," Holmgren said. "He transferred that at this point of his career to the gym. He does a lot of workouts by himself. He wears weight belts, walks around with weights on his ankles and goes on the ice with a weight on his stick – he continually practices his shooting. We didn’t know about all that, but it’s set a really good example for all of our young guys about preparation for games and practices."

And this…

"He’s been great, terrific," Holmgren said. "Are those adjectives?

Also THIS is very interesting because I always had a feeling it would come down to dropping Jagr and keeping Voracek…but they’re both represented by Svoboda…

Jagr has said all along that he’d like to wait and see what happens after a full season, including playoffs, to see what he wants to do, but if you ask Svoboda, it sounds like re-signing with the Flyers is high on the priority list.

"I haven’t spoken to Paul yet, but I will be in Philadelphia for the Winter Classic and I’m sure we’ll talk because I also represent Jake Voracek (who is on a one-year deal as well)," Svoboda said. "Jagr may have been leaning one way before July 1 but I’m glad he made the decision he did because he’s having a great time with Giroux and he loves that organization as much as I did during my five years there."

Dave Isaac also had a really interesting piece that he just put out, too. More about why he signed here and stuff like that. Figured that the beat guys would have something good prepared for this game for #68, and good to see they haven’t disappointed.

http://phillysportsdaily.com/flyers/2011/12/29/jagr-braces-for-return-to-pittsburgh/