Mogilny: The Defector

[spndnchz]

Sportsnet special

 

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/defector-2/

 

You Grandpa's remember this I assume.

[darksabre]

Oh cool!

[Claude_Verret]

Yes I do, but I ain't no grandpa!

[tom webster]

Yes I do, but I ain't no grandpa!

 

Me as well.

[Stoner]

Sportsnet special

 

http://www.sportsnet...nhl/defector-2/

 

You Grandpa's remember this I assume.

 

I remember when a kid would get an ass-whooping for wasting an apostrophe, and the po-po wouldn't get called.

[wjag]

Sportsnet special

 

http://www.sportsnet...nhl/defector-2/

 

You Grandpa's remember this I assume.

 

Like it was yesterday... This was high drama at the time...

[DHawerchuk10]

Like it was yesterday... This was high drama at the time...

Those were simpler times.

[X. Benedict]

Sportsnet special

 

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/defector-2/

 

You Grandpa's remember this I assume.

 

you kids with your fancy apple II computers and DVDs don't have to learn hockey history from old hockey cards like rawer and I'd say more but need my nap

 

[Bob Malooga]

Sportsnet special

 

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/defector-2/

 

You Grandpa's remember this I assume.

I was upset I couldn't watch this on Time Warner...thank you very much for posting this, I greatly appreciate it!!! :-)

 

Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

[biodork]

This thread title makes me think of Ghostbusters.

[Marvelo]

My question, is Mogilny going to the HOF? He was a 6 time 30 goal scorer, a 3 time 50 goal scorer and a Stanley Cup winner. Although Mogilny was phenomenal for awhile, they remember Bure and Fedorov. He didn't seem to be at Dom's party...

 

http://www.hockey-reference.com/players/m/mogilal01.html

Edited November 27, 2014 by 716

[Corp000085]

That was great. Those guys were crazy for pulling that stunt.

[I am Defecting]

Thanks, OP. Those were impressionable young years for this future grandpa. I came away with the feeling that the Sabres are rad.

Edited November 29, 2014 by Yuri Olesha

[IKnowPhysics]

I love that our franchise history has this chapter of play-to-win, historical precedent-setting, human-liberating cloak and dagger in it.

 

We freed a human being from the clutches of the Soviet Empire at the risk of hard labor (read: death) not only because he would make the team better (for a long time), but because it was the right thing to do.