Alexander Mogilny

Alexander Mogilny Gennadjewitsch (Russian Александр Геннадьевич Могильный; * 18 February 1969 in Khabarovsk, Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey player who during his career for the Buffalo Sabres, Vancouver Canucks, New Jersey Devils and Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League played. He reached over 1000 points scorer in 990 NHL games. He was the first Soviet player in the NHL, the first Russian who was elected to an NHL All-Star Team, the first European who surpassed the 76- goal mark in a season and the first European to captain an NHL - team was.

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Career

Alexander Mogilny began his career at HK CSKA Moscow, where he collaborated with Sergei Fedorov and Pavel Bure a talented young forward line, which should replace the series Krutov - Larionov - Makarov ( KLM series), was formed. With CSKA the three players were 1987, 1988 and 1989, Soviet champion and won the European Cup in 1988 and 1989.

At the World Cup in 1989, Mogilny put down after the medal ceremony of the Soviet national team. The Buffalo Sabres, who had a year earlier selected him in the NHL Entry Draft in 1988 in the fifth round at 89th place, arranged his flight to North America. Mogilny was the first Soviet hockey players in the National Hockey League. For the Sabres to Mogilny became one of the most dangerous strikers in the league, where he increased his points total from year to year. In the 1992/93 season he scored 76 goals in 77 games this season, so he won the top scorer in the NHL together with the Finnish rookie Teemu Selanne. In addition, he was elected to the Second All-Star team in the league.

Due to the lockout in the NHL at the start of season 1994/95 he returned to Russia and completed a game for the HK Spartak Moscow before it again took him to the Sabres, as the game was resumed operation. In the summer of 1995, the Sabres gave him from the Vancouver Canucks, who submitted to the Sabres in exchange Michael Peca, Mike Wilson and a first-round draft choice of law. For the Canucks, he was initially able to build on its achievements and was elected as 1996 with 107 points scorer in the regular season again in the Second All-Star Team. In the following three years, he received only significantly fewer goals, so that the Canucks decided in March 2000 to a barter transaction. Mogilny was sent to the New Jersey Devils, the Canucks received for Brendan Morrison and Denis Pederson. With the Devils, he won at the end of the 1999/2000 season the Stanley Cup. In the following season he scored in 75 games and reached 83 points scorer with the Devils again the final of the Stanley Cup that went with 3:4 against the Colorado Avalanche lost.

In the summer of 2001, his contract ran out and Mogilny was committed as a free agent by the Toronto Maple Leafs, where he received a four- year contract for a total of 22 million U.S. dollars. For the Leafs, he became one of the leading players and was instrumental in helping the team between 2002 and penetrated into the Conference Finals. In the season 2002/ 03 he was the best point scorer of his team and was honored by the NHL with the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy for the most exemplary athletic players. The majority of the following season he missed because of a hip injury he had suffered in November 2003 in a game against the Edmonton Oilers.

During the lockout again in the 2004/05 season he did not play professional hockey. In August 2005, he was again taken by the New Jersey Devils under contract that gave him a two- year contract over seven million dollars. During the following season, he has now been deported to the American Hockey League, not to exceed the so-called salary cap. The complete 2006/ 07 Mogilny missed with an injury before he resigned from active competition in 2007.

Internationally

Mogliny played for the Soviet Union at the Junior World Championships in 1987, 1988 and 1989. He was top scorer in 1988, honored as the best striker and won with the U20 team the silver medal. He was then awarded Honored Master of Sports of the USSR.

With the Men's National Team he won at the Olympic Winter Games 1988, the gold medal and the world title in 1989. For the Russian national team, he played only at the World Cup of Hockey in 1996, but without much success.

Awards and achievements

Internationally

Career Stats

Internationally

Represented the USSR at:

• U18 European Junior Championships 1986
• U20 World Junior Championships 1987
• U20 World Junior Championships 1988
• U20 World Junior Championships 1989
• World Cup 1989
• Winter Olympics 1988

Represented Russia at the:

• World Cup of Hockey 1996

( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )