The Immaturity Keeping Alexander Mogilny Out Of The Hockey Hall Of Fame - An Article By Kevin Wong

[frisco]

Bure had more high-end seasons, which is important for players who didn't have long strings of prime Francis or Sundin type seasons..

I don't know if Bure's peak is automatically better than Mogilny.

Top Seven Seasons: Bure 91.0 points average/Mogilny 91.4 average. Used adjusted points for both in 94-95 shortened year.

And Mogilny made way more contributions outside his best seven than Bure.

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[vadim sharifijanov]

Kovalev had one of the greatest arsenal of shots I have ever seen. His shots taken as a whole were A to A+. His wrist shot definitely A+. Slapshot, like A-.

He wasn't a fast skater but had very good lateral movement.

1-on-1, I only saw Lemieux and Jagr that were better. Maybe Datsyuk too. Talking strictly stickhandling past a defender, no speed even needed.

IQ about B+.

Too much Kovalev-underrating on this board.

i’m not quite as high on kovalev’s skillset as you but even granted all of that (which might just be us having different goalposts for letter grades) mogilny is all of that minus the slapshot plus incredible speed plus A+ hockey iq.

i have never seen as gifted a hockey player accomplish so little in a 1,000 game career.

 

[Oheao]

Anderson was a Mullen, Ciccarelli level scorer who happened to play in the most favorable circumstances possible. Put him on literally any other team and you're talking about a guy who's only occasionally remembered when talking about that era. Trumpeting him as the 4th best playoff scorer of all time looks great until you realize that 1-4 are his own teammates. Making him the 4th best playoff scorer on his own team.

Inducting guys like Anderson is how you get Joe Nieuwendyk in the HOF. And Nieuwendyk opens the door for even more mediocrity. Eventually we are going to end up with Claude Lemieux and this sequence of logic is the reason why.

I don't know what the rules are for bumping threads here, but I don't understand this. "Literally any other team"? Um, he was literally put on another team and won the Stanley Cup with them! Unless the Rangers don't count for some reason.

 

[tarheelhockey]

I don't know what the rules are for bumping threads here, but I don't understand this. "Literally any other team"? Um, he was literally put on another team and won the Stanley Cup with them! Unless the Rangers don't count for some reason.

And he was so important to that team that he was outscored by Sergei Nemchinov. It’s not that the Rangers don’t count, it’s that nobody remembers or cares about Anderson’s role with them.

 

[Erik Alfredsson]

It seems a little silly to put in a player because of one good season. The rest of his career is shockingly unremarkable compared to a lot of players waiting to get in the HHOF. If he gets in this season, Pat LaFontaine better be the first guy he thanks in his induction speech, because if it wasn't for that season, nobody would even consider Mogilny even a borderline case for the HOF.