Alexander Mogilny Finally Gets the Call to the Hall

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As Full Press Hockey has documented, Alexander Mogilny has been most deserving of going into the Hockey Hall of Fame for many years now. The fact that he had to wait 16 years for this moment is a crying shame.

He has been eligible for the Hockey Hall of Fame since 2009. And for the last 15 years, he has been passed over. When Full Press Hockey caught up with John Madden during the 2024-25 season, the Utah Manmoth assistant coach and former teammate of Mogilny when they won the Stanley Cup in 2000, felt he was a Hockey Hall of Famer.

“To me, Alexander Mogilny is one of the best players not to be in the Hockey Hall of Fame,” Madden said of his former teammate.

And you know what, at the time, Madden was right. And he is still right. Why did it take this long for one of the more prolific goal scorers in NHL history to get into the Hockey Hall of Fame?

It is a mystery that may never be solved, as the Hockey Hall of Fame Committee nomination and voting process is secret. But year after year, since 2009, he got passed over. Nobody knew why, but many people wrote about how Mogilny needed to be in the Hockey Hall of Fame.

His story is remarkable. The Buffalo Sabres drafted Mogilny and he was the first player to defect from the Soviet Union to play in the NHL. He joined the Sabres in 1989. He hit the 30-goal plateau four times with the Sabres, scoring 76 goals during the 1992-93 season.

At the time, he was one of six players in NHL history to score 75 or more goals in a season, not in the Hall of Fame. With Mogilny’s announcement on Tuesday, every member of that club is in the Hockey Hall of Fame.

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Mogilny then went to Vancouver, where his scoring pace continued. He scored over 30 goals twice, including a 55-goal season in the 1995-96 season. Although his production dipped somewhat in Vancouver, he remained an effective player and goal scorer.

The Canucks traded Mogilny to the New Jersey Devils during the 1999-2000 season, where he found a role alongside Scott Gomez. Playing in New Jersey revitalized his career. During the 2000-01 season, Mogilny scored 43 goals and was an essential piece for the Devils in their runs to back-to-back Stanley Cup Finals.

As Lou Lamoriello has stated multiple times, without Alexander Mogilny, the New Jersey Devils would not have won the Stanley Cup in 2000. Kind of ironic that on the 30th anniversary of the Devils first Stanley Cup in 1995 and the 25th anniversary of the Devils second Stanley Cup in 2000, which Mogilny was a part of, he goes into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

As Madden stated, if the Devils needed a big goal, Alexander Mogilny was putting the puck in the net.

“It was crazy how many key goals he scored for us at the right moments, at the right times, whether it was regular season or playoffs; he just had that knack for burying goals that mattered,” Madden continued.

Mogilny should have been in on his resume years ago. He played in 1,114 games in the NHL, including 990 regular-season games and 124 playoff games with the Devils, Sabres, Canucks, and Toronto Maple Leafs.

In the regular season, he has 1,032 points (473 goals and 559 assists), averaging 1.04 points per game. Then, in 124 games in the playoffs, Mogilny recorded 86 points (39 goals and 47 assists). In total, he scored 1,118 points (512 goals and 606 assists) across 1,114 regular-season and playoff games.

Then there is the international part of the resume. He is a member of the Quadruple and Triple Gold Club, having won an Olympic Gold Medal, a World Championship Gold Medal, a World Juniors Gold Medal, and a Stanley Cup. If you look at those in the Hockey Hall of Fame, there are 30 members in the Hall of Fame from that exclusive club. You can now make it 31 with Mogilny finally going into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

A major wrong has been righted in the hockey world as Alexander Mogilny is taking his rightful place in the Hockey Hall of Fame.