The jet-set life of a pro hockey player is not for the faint of heart.

Check out Remi Elie and the Dallas Stars’ travel day for their 2-1 NHL exhibition victory over the Florida Panthers before 5,352 Sunday afternoon at Budweiser Gardens.

The alarm clock went off in the Big D at 6 a.m.

“We flew out at eight in the morning and got here around noon,” the rugged former London Knight said. “Then, we had a couple of meetings, stretched out and did our own thing before the game.”

The ceremonial puck drop — featuring local Olympians Damian Warner, Derek Drouin and Alysha Newman — was at 3 p.m.

Two-and-a-half hours later, the game needed to be settled in 3-on-3 sudden death. You started to sense these teams didn’t have enough time budgeted for a shootout.

The Stars’ bus was due to leave at 6 p.m. in order to make their flight home and the Panthers were right behind them.

In, out, and on their way at break-neck speed.

Nick Ebert, the former OHL champ with the Guelph Storm, saved them the penalty-shot contest by blasting the overtime winner past Panthers goalie Reto Berra at the 2:27 mark. Roberto Luongo, Florida’s backup for the game, never had to budge from his seat in the camera well between the benches.

Elie didn’t even see the winner, even though he assisted on it.

“I just got off the ice, we hit the post, and my back was turned,” he said. “I saw people were celebrating.”

So were many local puck fans when the news spread late Saturday Panthers mega-star Jaromir Jagr would be suiting up for this neutral-site tilt. Give that assist to Florida GM Tom Rowe, a former London Knight, and Panthers executive chair Peter Luukko, who has been bringing preseason games here since his days in the Flyers hierarchy.

Jagr actually laced up in one of those early London tilts during his brief tour as a Washington Capital, but he didn’t recall it.

Can you blame him?

That was many years — and teams — ago.

The Czech greybeard, who skipped the recent World Cup after retiring from national-team duty, didn’t disappoint.

Jagr assisted on Jonathan Huberdeau’s tally with 6.2 seconds left in the first period. The combined age of Huberdeau and Alex Barkov, his linemates, happens to match his own, at 44 years old.

The big man used his size to protect the puck and draw a tripping penalty in the second, and then, late in the game, lugged the puck in signature style around the offensive zone, looking to set up a trigger man in front.

It didn’t work, but it added a little spice to what was really a rather dreary affair.

If Jagr gets his druthers, he indicated he would skate in every available exhibition game. The Panthers and Stars meet again Tuesday in Dallas.

“I want to play all of them,” he said. “Just to get ready for the (regular-season) games.”

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Stars 2, Panthers 1 (OT)

Dallas goals: Antoine Roussel, Nick Ebert

Florida goal: Jonathan Huberdeau