Posts About "Alexander Mogilny"
Sabres 2017 Holiday Wish List
December 24th, 2017 Tis the season... Fa-la-la-la-la-la-LaFontaine! Oh, those were the days...when Sabres' legendary play-by-play announcer Rick Jeanneret was calling Pat LaFontaine’s goals for the team back in the 1990s. And there were plenty of them. LaFontaine netted 158 goals in Blue & Gold in only 268 games. Jeanneret's catchphrases were as...
World Junior Championship All-Time Leading Scorers
December 18th, 2017 The 2018 WJHC is just around the corner. One of the best hockey tournaments of the year. The kids bring so much excitement to the rinks - it's infectious. Pile on a helping of National pride with that and we have ourselves a dandy. Fitting in with the holidays, what a better time to reflect, and remember the all-time leading scorers...
Alexander Mogilny Hall Of Fame Worthy
November 13th, 2017 Alexander Mogilny, Sergei Fedorov and Pavel Bure played on the same line in the former Soviet Union. Mogilny was the first to make the jump to the NHL, with Fedorov and Bure following. Bure and Fedorov were both elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame and their linemate Mogilny should make the jump and follow them to Toronto. Mogilny was a...
Alexander Mogilny: The Great Russian Enigma
November 9th, 2017 Of all the great players to dazzle the NHL, some of the finest and most controversial have enimated from Mother Russia. From Sergei Fedorov to Sergei Bobrovsky, Pavel Bure to Pavel Datsyuk, Russia continutes to produce some of the NHL's top stars. And there are few who inspired more awe and ire than Alexander...
Andreychuk, Mogilny to Finally Get the Call from HHoF?
November 24th, 2016 Just imagine, not one but two Buffalo Sabres enshrined at the Hockey Hall of Fame next season. Two of the most prolific goal-scorers throughout the 1990s and in the NHL all-time record book, the Canadian-born Dave Andreychuk and Russian defector Alexander Mogilny couldn't have come from more different hockey backgrounds. But each took...
From Russia With Love: All Time Russians for Canucks
March 28th, 2016 The recent addition of Nikita Tryamkin on the Vancouver Canucks blue line has been heavily anticipated, and with fellow countryman Andrey Pedan also on the team's active roster, there's a bit of Russian flavor that the Canucks haven't had in many years (and have never truly had on their blue line). With Vancouver being geographically...
