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the stockholm story aka the 1418 moment that i can never shut the fuck up about. additional detail lmao:

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Almo and Pat

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Soviet Sport newspaper, May 6th, 1989.

Vyatcheslav Ivanovich [the captain of the soviet national team at the time], at what point did you find out about the dissapearance of Mogilny?

It happened in early morning of May 4th. The team was gathering near the bus that was supposed to take us to the airport. Everyone was there except Mogilny. Naturally, we asked the hotel workers: do they have any information about this? They told us: no. We asked the guys — no one knew anything. Sergei Fedorov, who was Mogilny's roommate at the time, said that after midnight [Mogilny] was in the hotel room and in the morning he was gone. [sergei's words:] "I thought that he left to take his luggage outside and didn't worry too much, I was convinced he'd be back any minute..."

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alexander mogilny instigating a fight with pat verbeek at the buffalo sabres vs hartford whalers game (23.02.90)

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alexander mogilny and sergei fedorov in the sheremetyevo airport, moskow, november 3rd, 1994. photographer: dmitry sontsev

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alexander mogilny scoring with pat lafontaine at the minnesota north stars vs buffalo sabres game (21.11.1992)

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igor larionov talking about alexander mogilny right after he defected (translation under the cut)

— Did you know Mogilny well?

— Another person's soul is unknowable. He's a closed off guy, with a mind of his own. What can I say, we missed him through the cracks. Not in Stockholm but earlier. He'd come in, train, leave. And no one even tried to find out what he did with his life outside of hockey. I'm not excusing him, but I don't want to be a prosecutor either, everyone has their own sense of motherland, sense of duty, and you can't impose it on anyone by force. One thing is that I can't accept the version of the army officer who fled to the West. What kind of a soldier is he! He's a boy that was forced into the rank slides: since you want to play in CSKA and the national hockey team. In our system becoming an officer is easy. But when it comes to leaving afterwards...

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russian stars in nhl cards released in 1991