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HHOF Class of 2019: Carbonneau, Nedomansky, Wickenheiser, Zubov, Rutherford, York


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Considering back when he defected, you could get killed for doing so, it's a pretty big deal.

 

so he should be in the Defecters Hall of fame, not hockey. By that logic Mogilny should've been in the hall of fame for dozen of years for being the first Russian to play in the NHL or first Russian professional hockey player to defect to USA. or some shit like that

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so he should be in the Defecters Hall of fame, not hockey. By that logic Mogilny should've been in the hall of fame for dozen of years for being the first Russian to play in the NHL or first Russian professional hockey player to defect to USA. or some shit like that

 

Tretiak is in too. It's the Hockey Hall of Fame, not the NHL Hall of Fame.

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so he should be in the Defecters Hall of fame, not hockey. By that logic Mogilny should've been in the hall of fame for dozen of years for being the first Russian to play in the NHL or first Russian professional hockey player to defect to USA or some shit like that

 

gotta update your Russian history b/c Slava Fetisov was the 1st russian to defect and play in the NHL

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Mogilny was the first to defect, but Fetisov and his group were probably more influential (and I think first). They both played their first game on 10/5 that season.

 

Fetisov and the group did not defect. they were "let go" by the Soviet gov't. There's a whole movie on how Fetisov fought the soviet establishment to go play in NA on his terms

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