Jaromir Jagr is older than his new team.
The New Jersey Devils on Thursday traded the 43-year-old winger to the Florida Panthers for a 2015 second-round pick and a conditional pick in 2016.
Jagr's time with New Jersey had run its course, and Florida GM Dale Tallon, somewhat surprisingly, led the rescue mission.
It is a good addition for the Panthers, who started Thursday two points behind the Boston Bruins for the second wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference.
Jagr, despite his age and a drop in playing time after New Jersey fired coach Pete DeBoer, still led the Devils with 29 points.
The NHL trade deadline is on Monday.
Jagr was a Pittsburgh Penguins draft pick in 1990.
He is old, and now plays amongst the elderly.
The Panthers, founded in 1993, are his eighth team; by that point, he hasd already won two Stanley Cups and scored 93 goals.
Jagr is unquestionably one of the best players in NHL history and, minus lockouts and a three-year KHL stint, could have winded up as the third-leading scorer of all time.
As it stands, he is fifth with 1,784 points and sixth with 716 goals.