The Bag Skate: Jagr Reportedly Gets Huge KHL Offer

Is it too hot for hockey? You may be right, but until the cold weather returns, welcome to The Bag Skate, FanHouse's afternoon roundup of everything that's happening on a typical offseason weekday.

We've heard about the rumors that Jaromir Jagr has an offer in his hip pocket to rejoin Avangard Omsk, the KHL team he played with during the lockout, and now, thanks to The Hockey Rodent, we have the first report of some solid numbers in the Czech press. I'm thinking Glen Sather is unmoved.

Though it has a fancy sounding name, don't be fooled: Finding Dulcinea boasts a good hockey blogger.

Barry Melrose wants you to know that the game hasn't passed him by. In fact, he now says that the game is right back where he left it. I'm thinking he's got plenty of people to convince otherwise. Elsewhere in Tampa, Bill Barber is moving on and Marc Denis has been bought out, while Brian Lawton is in.

Is hockey sexist? John MacKinnon says yes.

Sean Leahy wants the NHL Network to go five days a week throughout the Summer with On The Fly: Final. Until that happens, I'll just read Sean Leahy. Then again, is there a solution in a Bay Area startup?

Jeremy Roenick earned himself another kick at the can in San Jose. Joe Pavelski and Brian Boucher will be back too. TV can wait another season for JR ... Trent Yawney will join the coaching staff in San Jose, while Rob Zettler and Tim Hunter will join Ron Wilson in Toronto ... The Kings and the Sharks will play a preseason game in Salt Lake City ... When Oli Jokinen finally suits up for Phoenix, he'll have Brian McGrattan watching his back ... Back in Florida, seven of Jokinen's former teammates got qualifying offers, most prominently, Jay Bouwmeester, while Jozef Stumpel was waived ... The Caps qualify five of their own RFAs ... Kyle Wellwood found a new job in Vancouver.