Over the last 25 years, Jagr has largely avoided the major injuries that can curtail or doom careers, his frame suited for maintaining productivity across different eras. He credits his durability, in part, to achieving a spiritual balance; he and Powers speak often about opening chakras. He draws energy not only from food and sleep, he said, but also from inner peace.

“Once you get too excited, too high, too low, it’s like a brake in your car,” Jagr said, adding: “You’re in traffic, you go fast, but you’re still going to brake when someone’s going to pass you. And you spend so much gas than the guys who are going slow.”

Excluding this season, and the two others shortened significantly by lockouts, he has averaged 77 games. With one game to go, he has played 78.

This season he blew past Brett Hull and Marcel Dionne to reach third on the regular-season career goal list, with 749 as of Friday. On March 7, he surpassed Gordie Howe in points, moving into third, where he sits with 1,867.

After his assist in that game, an overtime loss at home against the Boston Bruins, Jagr answered a few questions about the milestone, grabbed Barkov and Huberdeau to pose for a photo with the puck, and then retreated into the weight room.

He rode the bike and walloped the medicine ball and towed Powers. He explained to the new acquisition Jiri Hudler the benefits of resistance sprinting. He listened to Barkov say that if Jagr returned next season and played on his line, Jagr would smash more records. By the time he left the arena, it was nearly 1 a.m.

Strange as it seems, this will all end at some point. It does for everyone, and when it does for Jagr — be it at 45, or 55 or beyond — he will think about what comes next, but not a moment before. Asked about his postcareer plans, Jagr cut off the question midsentence and grinned.

“The body knows a lot more than you do,” he said. “Something always puts you somewhere where you should be.”