Sat 10/13/12 9:30 AM

The migration of NHL stars to European hockey leagues has triggered a debate that these NHLers have pushed natives out of jobs, something that has irked Jaromir Jagr, who owns HC Klando in the Czech Republic and also is the leading scorer in the Czech league. "That's absolute nonsense," Jagr argued on Czech public television this week. "You can believe me that the young players now have somebody to learn from. I doubt that I would have ever reached my hockey level if I hadn't had players such as Paul Coffey and Mario Lemieux around me. I learned from them every day." Jagr has signed four other NHL players for Kladno, including Tomas Plekanec of the Montreal Canadiens.