Defector: The Alex Mogilny Story | Sportsnet Presents

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  • Sportsnet takes a special look at the story of Alexander Mogilny and his defection from Soviet Union.
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  • @ot92s
    @ot92s 4 ปีที่แล้ว +117

    if you were around when this kid rolled the dice to defect...and then the way he performed? he's a legend and should be in the hall.

    • @nichlasjohansson4644
      @nichlasjohansson4644 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yes I agree if schwarzenegger is the terminator, Hermann Maier "the Herminator" so Mogilny must be "the defecator"

    • @marcpell133
      @marcpell133 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Absolute shame he isn’t already. Point per game player for close to, if not 1000 games.

    • @DTate96
      @DTate96 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      lol the defecator? So he shits himself?

    • @MrOctober44
      @MrOctober44 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      He was a fantastic. He did seem to disappear/not show up in a lot of games, especially the playoffs. I agree he should be in the hall. Alex the great.

    • @mrconfusion87
      @mrconfusion87 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​​@@MrOctober44hough he won a Stanley Cup back in 2000 with the New Jersey Devils, so at least there were playoff years he showed up...

  • @Tjd1982
    @Tjd1982 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    The way Sergei says no, gives you chills.
    "I still have family living there."

    • @joepogue_29
      @joepogue_29 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Nothing like a KGB agent running the “free, democratic state”

    • @APAL880
      @APAL880 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@joepogue_29 We're not free or democratic here. At least they're strong and control their borders and protect their children from malicious propaganda.

  • @23skidoo46
    @23skidoo46 4 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    Mogilny, Fedorov & Bure. what a line that was.

    • @ShaunsCollectibles
      @ShaunsCollectibles 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Stompie Joe Imagine if they went to an Olympics!

    • @gordieparenteau6555
      @gordieparenteau6555 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Imagine if the Canucks had signed Wayne Gretzky in 1996. The Great One between Mogilny and Bure.

    • @dashcroft1892
      @dashcroft1892 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@gordieparenteau6555 imagine if Rome hadn’t knocked out Horton, or Messier hadn’t been traded to New York, or if Snepsts hadn’t passed to Bossy in OT - Vancouver may have won a cup. Alas, there will always be “next season.”

  • @Grimwulf88
    @Grimwulf88 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Mogilny paved the way for other Russian players like Bure, Fedorov, etc. But Mogilny was the first with the balls to make this move. Imagine if Mogilny wasn't drafted. I wonder how long it would have taken russian players to make this move to the NHL. Mogilny Is a brave hero and should be in the HOF!

    • @go4a24
      @go4a24 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Rumor is, the nhl made a secret agreement with Russia to never put mogilny in hhof

  • @bigbigtimeboy
    @bigbigtimeboy ปีที่แล้ว +14

    the guy was amazing ....76 goals in one year. 40 pts in WJC....classic Soviet left handed shot on the RW. So good.

  • @ssvoogel
    @ssvoogel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    YES! This is the content we need. Can you make this a series? There are other examples too. Petr Nedved, Vaclav Nedomansky, the Stastny brothers

    • @champagnedrippy3942
      @champagnedrippy3942 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ssvoogel I totally agree , a serie on netflix lol

  • @Lokee77Clark
    @Lokee77Clark 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    Considering Mogilny is currently a president of a KHL hockey club i do not blame him for not appearing.

    • @bxball
      @bxball 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Same reason I don't blame Federov for not saying much. Shit's different under Putin than it is in the west.

  • @clyderain1118
    @clyderain1118 4 ปีที่แล้ว +148

    Mogilny shoud be in the hof

  • @BenDover-vs7ih
    @BenDover-vs7ih 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Damn this was gripping, intense and suspenseful. Would be great for a movie. Great documentary. Every Russian player should thank this guy.

    • @_Mike.85
      @_Mike.85 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      agreed, this would make an awesome movie. James Bond meets hockey, haha.

  • @JoshPlumridge
    @JoshPlumridge 4 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    You know I'm no expert, but it seemed like Sergei Fedorov wasn't telling the whole story!

    • @bxball
      @bxball 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Dude lives under Putin. If you were him having lived his life what would you say?

    • @JBTriple8
      @JBTriple8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Russian isnt completely free of soviet rule despite changing there flag

    • @ezefinkielman4672
      @ezefinkielman4672 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      One big problem with Russia today is that the people who run it were born and raised in the Soviet system.

    • @JBTriple8
      @JBTriple8 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ezefinkielman4672 that make sense

    • @vitalymaminoff3422
      @vitalymaminoff3422 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Могильный это самый недооценённый игрок всех времён

  • @timothymcmanimon8700
    @timothymcmanimon8700 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Mogilny not being in the hall is an absolute joke

  • @joeygrimaldi6293
    @joeygrimaldi6293 4 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    Rip Colby Cave

    • @ryanhillier107
      @ryanhillier107 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      25 man smfh. Rip

    • @Richness0fCalciuM
      @Richness0fCalciuM 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Gone way to soon

    • @Valarmorgolis
      @Valarmorgolis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oiler fan just off work randomly picks this video to watch and randomly reads this post just hours later. Really!! DAM!! What a way to find out. He was a solid player and liked all around. Once an Oiler always an Oiler. RIP buddy.

    • @dannyf21
      @dannyf21 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Valarmorgolis ok fan boy he was a fringe player

  • @dmcdmc
    @dmcdmc 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I met Mogilny & Yashin at a hockey game in the early 90s and got their autographs!

  • @Jo__Ko
    @Jo__Ko ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It's actually offensive how this guy isn't in the hall of fame yet

  • @gjbeaudry1484
    @gjbeaudry1484 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    AMAZING!!! Simply put, the best international intrigue story, either fictional or the truth, ever told!!! The courage of everyone involved is immense!!! It blows me away that a TEENAGER would exhibit such trust in a foreign nation, not to mention the biggest enemies amongst nation's in HUMAN HISTORY!!! As a lifelong Buffalo Sabres fan(because I played goalie for the best competitive team in the state-[Utah, I know, not the ice hockey juggernaut Ottawa, or Toronto is, but still] and The Sabres drafted Tom Barrasso straight out of HIGH SCHOOL!!!) I must say, the line of Pat La-La-Lafontaine, Dave Andreychuk, and Alexander Mogilny are, in my opinion, the greatest line in Sabres history!!! Better than the FRENCH CONNECTION (although those two lines are among the top 3(!!!) in all of hockey history)... Anyway, this video is amazing, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR MAKING IT!!!

  • @Cooliepops
    @Cooliepops 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    A buddy and I went to see a Sabres/Kings game in the early 90's. Afterwards we hit the bar strip for a few. As soon as I walked in I see a guy at the bar with a lady on each side of him and he's having a cigarette. It was Mogilny. He didn't play that night for whatever reason. Then about a half hour later in walks a bunch of Kings players and Gretzky as well. Soon the Buffalo Jills were there too. What a night. Can't believe we got back over the border.

    • @Cooliepops
      @Cooliepops 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @salkdhfpoahergpoahre No the Buffalo bar scene isn't very big (well it wasn't back then) It was just a part of town that had a strip of bars.

  • @sacredalien8011
    @sacredalien8011 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I have a vintage Canucks jersey that I got Mogilny and his number sewn on the back. Did that about 10 years ago and I’m only 27 now, he’s definitely made his mark

  • @EstonianBerserker
    @EstonianBerserker ปีที่แล้ว +6

    HE NEEDS TO BE IN THE HOCKEY HALL OF FAME ASAP!

  • @NYYanks2003040506
    @NYYanks2003040506 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Enjoyed watching him with New Jersey, great season in 00-01.

  • @merc340sr
    @merc340sr 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great video! Mogilny was an elite player in the NHL! Over 400 goals!

  • @genososa2452
    @genososa2452 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Great Documentary would love more of these 👍

  • @tjmcmaster
    @tjmcmaster 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Him and Sundin were amazing to watch together

  • @mjo4086
    @mjo4086 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Fascinating - Like a Mission Impossible episode!

    • @brianmouland209
      @brianmouland209 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And this was 35 years ago,such a different world

  • @lphan4597
    @lphan4597 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    And still not in the HHOF. Alfie and Sedins are not better than Mogilny. He's 1.04 points per game in the dead puck era!

  • @alwayne6390
    @alwayne6390 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    No movie made for this guy story,I see basketball and football players with movies non of them compare to what he did and risked DEATH! He also took the NHL by the horns. It was a honor to meet him when I was a young kid not knowing his brave story.

  • @Sarando1
    @Sarando1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This would make for a great movie.

    • @JBTriple8
      @JBTriple8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yes basically the Hockey version Of Argo

  • @abdullahb6039
    @abdullahb6039 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This would be a great movie

  • @theodorebelmont7922
    @theodorebelmont7922 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Fedorov is hilarious. " Do u remember Alex leaving to Buffalo: Yes of Course, " can u talk about it"
    No LOL

    • @felipepineda1585
      @felipepineda1585 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It wasn't meant to be funny. He has loves ones probably still there!

  • @mcfleury
    @mcfleury 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    And somehow isn't in the Hall of Fame

  • @DTate96
    @DTate96 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Tihkonov's confidante sounds like a classic, bitter old Soviet bastard. Controlling players lives totally worked out so well. That's why people were defecting, what a joke.

  • @Davidjon1946
    @Davidjon1946 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I think about a young mogilny and LaFontaine being on that 1999 sabres stanley cup final team

  • @marcod1885
    @marcod1885 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    How in the hell is he not in the hall of fame?

    • @theodorebelmont7922
      @theodorebelmont7922 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There's alot of politics in the Hall of Fame. Almost like a old Boys club

  • @theblasvader
    @theblasvader 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Now the Wild are going to need to do the same thing with Kirill Kaprizov, in 2022..

    • @gemparaiso8408
      @gemparaiso8408 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The flyers might have to do the same thing with Ivan Fedotov when he’s free

  • @CristinaF210
    @CristinaF210 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1989 i was 19 years old, and for the younger folk here let me just write this, you never hear about politics as heavily as they did back then, from 1970's to 1990 more or less politics were a way of life ALL OVER the world nonstop, movies were always about politics, glad its over...more or less...

  • @EmmysCoolVids123
    @EmmysCoolVids123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thats sad he had to defect. But glad he had success in the NHL.

  • @nhlvan
    @nhlvan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wow this doc was aired like in 2014

  • @lil_bear
    @lil_bear 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Wonder why they couldnt get a interview with Mogilny for this?

    • @AprehamLincoln
      @AprehamLincoln 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Mogilny always hated dealing with the media. I'm sure that hasn't changed.

    • @bxball
      @bxball 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Dude's been walking on eggshells since the 80s. What would you do?

    • @zkiiffs9
      @zkiiffs9 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He's the president of his hometown KHL team. Probably doesn't want to rock the boat.

  • @chistiyhahol
    @chistiyhahol 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    HALL OF FAME!!!

  • @Lynx-lh9it
    @Lynx-lh9it 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a story.

  • @dronlaa
    @dronlaa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Imagine what was a line Mogilny, Fedorov, Bure, scaring! Mogilny, Bure more than point per game, Fedorov about 1 point. Hope we will see other great line, Mcdavid, Mackinnon, Marner.

  • @loganleger6642
    @loganleger6642 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Gilles Léger, Quebec Nordiques and the Stastny brothers another great story

  • @brianmouland209
    @brianmouland209 ปีที่แล้ว

    Changed the face of hockey forever

  • @GPrime008
    @GPrime008 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    SPORTSNET should have not put this out without Alex Mogilny!

    • @Hulzie-de7du
      @Hulzie-de7du 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I don’t think he would comment even if he wanted to 😂

  • @trxv.
    @trxv. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Sergei Federov’s brother Fedor Federov owns my hockey rink. They look exactly like each other. Have heard them speaking to each other over the fun, he’d speak Russian and then say something about concessions and back to Russian.

  • @theterrar3566
    @theterrar3566 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    ***IMP NOTICE***
    I've got a mssg from Tom yet again
    Nice video keep up the great content

  • @humanbeing2420
    @humanbeing2420 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Imagine your own government prohibiting you from leaving your country. It's so damn obscene.

  • @Bundy-zw9zm
    @Bundy-zw9zm ปีที่แล้ว

    Would make for a great movie!!! Here on recommendation from Jeff Marek 😁

  • @zachkostoff2341
    @zachkostoff2341 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Snubbed from the hall again what more does he need to do to get in?

  • @banjonochallenge3120
    @banjonochallenge3120 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How hes not in the HOF in 2024, blows my mind

  • @Kyumilli
    @Kyumilli 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How the hell you have a special documentary on this and not have him in Hall of Fame. Freaking Weber made it on first ballot 🤦‍♂️

  • @vurx218
    @vurx218 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Odd man rush did this a long time ago

  • @joepogue_29
    @joepogue_29 ปีที่แล้ว

    There was a fascinating piece CBC did prior to game 1 of the ‘96 World Cup Of Hockey (yea I realize 🇨🇦 didn’t win - thanks for nothing Mike Richter).
    It focused on the divide in the ‘current’ (back in ‘96) 🇷🇺 program. It looked at the forced reuniting of players who defected from the USSR and those who didn’t, leading to fractioning of their national program.
    (As of writing - July 1, 2023 - USSR/RUS is currently 1-13 in best on best tournaments all time.)

  • @incinc9068
    @incinc9068 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Really interesting... would love to see one of these about Malkin.

  • @Blazers04
    @Blazers04 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Interesting to see how rigid Fedorov was with the question about Mogilny’s defection. Some guys are still upset with him for leaving.

    • @aleksilepisto7282
      @aleksilepisto7282 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      More likely he’s worried about the blowback from saying something about it.

    • @Blazers04
      @Blazers04 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@aleksilepisto7282 No. There is still a lot of animosity there. The entire team bore the brunt of the investigation and for a lot of them, the the suspicion and punishment for Not doing enough to stop the defection

    • @joepogue_29
      @joepogue_29 ปีที่แล้ว

      There was a fascinating piece CBC did prior to game 1 of the ‘96 World Cup Of Hockey (yea I realize 🇨🇦 didn’t win - thanks for nothing Mike Richter).
      It focused on the divide in the ‘current’ (back in ‘96) 🇷🇺 program. It looked at the forced reuniting of players who defected from the USSR and those who didn’t, leading to fractioning of their national program.
      (As of writing - July 1, 2023 - USSR/RUS is currently 1-13 in best on best tournaments all time.)

  • @juna61
    @juna61 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    8:18 devils organization :o

  • @mattc9364
    @mattc9364 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sportsnet has nothing better to do than upload a 5-6 year old documentary and add it to the other 5969406 other channels with the same documentary.

  • @davidmather16
    @davidmather16 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember this story...it was a huge deal

  • @jlull1
    @jlull1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Gerry sent me

  • @jreiland07
    @jreiland07 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Are Russian players going to have to start doing this again?

  • @etenat8772
    @etenat8772 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Malkin would be great for one of these

  • @zzzzzz-rn3oh
    @zzzzzz-rn3oh ปีที่แล้ว +1

    First watch this then watch Lebron James the decision then proceed to vomit.

  • @imulippo5245
    @imulippo5245 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Government is your friend :)

  • @FishermanClay8108
    @FishermanClay8108 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is there a movie about this??

    • @KWCline91
      @KWCline91 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No, but there should be.

  • @OhNyquist
    @OhNyquist 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Odd man rush did it better

  • @bxball
    @bxball 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    As soon as NHL games made trades a thing Mogilny and Lafontaine were my new second line.

  • @zachmalone428
    @zachmalone428 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Don't understand Federov being so cagey about Molgilny defecting, couple of years earlier and Federov did the exact same thing. SMDH

    • @DTate96
      @DTate96 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He live in Putin's Russia, just because is no longer communist do not mean that things changed. He can't just go say what he likes like in NA. And now he head coach of red army to. So makes sense if you think about all of it

  • @nathan7007
    @nathan7007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    How bad is Russia that he wanted to go to Buffalo

  • @zigfield723
    @zigfield723 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This documentary is many years old, I guess Sportsnet is getting desperate

  • @skinflaver
    @skinflaver 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lol Alexander Mogeldy

  • @mmaaphilliates
    @mmaaphilliates 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The dislikes are Soviet Communists 🤣

    • @amandine2239
      @amandine2239 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I don’t think Russians who actually lived under ussr would have disliked this… more like tankie kids

  • @Rainyyblade
    @Rainyyblade หลายเดือนก่อน

    HoF inductee 2025 @NHL

  • @TheGammingPie
    @TheGammingPie หลายเดือนก่อน

    Moglovy???

  • @robertmolitor7785
    @robertmolitor7785 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why isn’t peter Klima mentioned he was one of the first to defect and the Red Wings helped him

    • @johnk230
      @johnk230 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      cuz this video is about alex mogilny

    • @robertmolitor7785
      @robertmolitor7785 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      1ZR1BZ1 I get that but they make it sound like he was the first

    • @scottkirkness8002
      @scottkirkness8002 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Because he was from Czechoslovakia. Alex mogilny was the first to defect from the Soviet Union's, which had much greater consequences

  • @banjoreno
    @banjoreno 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wheres the McDavid Documentary already!?

    • @h.b16
      @h.b16 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Boring

  • @caperby3818
    @caperby3818 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Freedom seems like the thing people want not slavery and communism

  • @ryerye6ix6
    @ryerye6ix6 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love him hockey wise, but to go back to Russia and make it seem nothing happened.... sounds weird to me. He got his money and fame and then bolted. Not as bad as it seems in Russia once you have money and power. Just sayn.

    • @johnk230
      @johnk230 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      its weird you think one must pledge their whole allegiance to a country

    • @scottkirkness8002
      @scottkirkness8002 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Being in Russia in 2020 with money is a lot different than they in the Soviet Union in 1989 without it

    • @ryerye6ix6
      @ryerye6ix6 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johnk230 never said that

    • @ryerye6ix6
      @ryerye6ix6 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@scottkirkness8002 true, but what I said is too.

    • @scottkirkness8002
      @scottkirkness8002 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ryerye6ix6 I mean.... you're not wrong. It IS like nothing happened, because the country it happened to no longer exists

  • @Mels-pu2fc
    @Mels-pu2fc 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Funny how everything good went away with the end of the Soviet Union including the Big Red Machine. Maybe that's a sign that life was better with the Soviet Union...

    • @FaustoTheBoozehound
      @FaustoTheBoozehound 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Said nobody ever

    • @royaltiri
      @royaltiri 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      There's no way it was better there. Mogilny himself says it was not something he could live with any more. th-cam.com/video/gJUuGJ0t_1I/w-d-xo.html

    • @Mels-pu2fc
      @Mels-pu2fc 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@FaustoTheBoozehound *says people who actually lived in those socialist countries (i.e. the elderly) as well as an increasing number of young people. This is undeniable.

    • @mr.devil9577
      @mr.devil9577 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What?

    • @DeluxeSlayer
      @DeluxeSlayer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Mels-pu2fc *Press X to doubt*

  • @jhammer7441
    @jhammer7441 ปีที่แล้ว

    Could do without the idiotic ambient music.

  • @thelegendarynintendobrothe4619
    @thelegendarynintendobrothe4619 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    10

  • @williamspence2079
    @williamspence2079 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    89th comment.

  • @LiterallyGod
    @LiterallyGod 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Overdramatic..

    • @joer8854
      @joer8854 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      The guy defected from the USSR. One of the most powerful and influential communist countries in history. Underdramtic if anything. He would have disappeared and later listed as dying from some illness if they got him back I'm sure.

    • @sacredalien8011
      @sacredalien8011 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Joe R he’s trolling

    • @dakkossman2063
      @dakkossman2063 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      He was sentenced to death in the ussr

    • @LiterallyGod
      @LiterallyGod 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dakkossman2063 no he wasnt. And hes still alive

    • @dakkossman2063
      @dakkossman2063 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@LiterallyGod he's alive because the soviet union collapsed. That's the only reason he was able to come back to Russia.
      All soviet hockey players were a part of the army and his defection was considered a betrayal of the country.

  • @eastonoberholtzer6740
    @eastonoberholtzer6740 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    1st comment

  • @hockeyteeth
    @hockeyteeth ปีที่แล้ว +1

    He belongs in the HOF.