By delaying decision, Jagr rolling the dice on return to Pittsburgh

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The Jaromir Jagr saga has taken it's twists and turns in the past four days. A lot of those twists and turns have been orchestrated by his agent Petr Svoboda.

Svoboda who on Wednesday said a decision from Jagr could be made in a couple days, now says a decision will not be made until July 1, according to the Detroit News.

The NHL informed Svoboda today that Jagr can't sign with an NHL team until July 1. That was news to Svoboda as he was not aware of that prior to being informed from the league and it's up for debate whether the GM's Jagr was talking with were also aware of that.

Sources in Jagr's camp say that no GM informed them a deal couldn't be signed before July 1. Svoboda by the way, mainly reps players in the European leagues.

Where this situation is getting dicey, is that Jagr won't be making a decision until July 1. Although he can't sign a contract until then, that doesn't mean he can't make a decision or reach an agreement beforehand, as Jagr can still negotiate with interested teams.

That could decrease the chances Jagr signs with Pittsburgh, considerably, if that's actually going to be the case.

Word coming out of the Penguins organization is that if they decided to push forward in talks, they wanted some clairity on the situation by the end of the weekend, with free agency set to begin on Friday, July 1.