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Jagr is the latest in line, although reinforcements will be needed — he told Gulutzan before signing a one-year contract in Calgary that he’s comfortable logging about 14 or 15 minutes per night, while Gaudreau and Monahan average closer to 17 or 18.

“For me and Monny, I think we’ve been doing this for quite some time now — rotating right-wingers. So I’m a little used to it by now,” Gaudreau said earlier this week. “But still, it’s nice to find a player you can keep building with. It gets easier on the ice when you’re playing with a player you’ve been playing with for a while.

“Hopefully, we can do that with Jags.”

Jagr has been doing this first-line thing since sticks were still made of wood, way back when with Mario Lemieux in Pittsburgh and, most recently, as a mentor to Aleksander Barkov and Jonathan Huberdeau in Florida.

He’s new to town, but everybody knows his credentials — he ranks second in league lore with 1,915 points, third with 765 goals and will be a sure-thing, slam-dunk inductee to the Hockey Hall-of-Famer, if he ever retires.

Typically, Gulutzan needs to sit down with his top-line right-winger to remind them not to reinvent themselves just because of their starry company.

In this case, he’s having those chats with Gaudreau and Monahan, who have combined for five goals and 15 points so far.

“They have to continue to do their thing,” Gulutzan stressed.

Jagr has been preaching the same, and the young guys ought to listen.

Not just because their latest sidekick is one of the all-time greats, but because Gaudreau is still after that autograph.

“My first few days, I could barely even talk to him I was so nervous,” Gaudreau said of Jagr. “But now it’s a lot easier — especially playing with him now and talking to him on the bench and talking to him after games a little bit and just being around the locker-room with him.

“It’s a lot more easy to communicate with him and just come to reality a little bit more.”

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