The 2025 Hockey Hall of Fame induction is Monday. This year’s class includes Jennifer Botterill, Zdeno Chara, Brianna Decker, Duncan Keith, Alexander Mogilny and Joe Thornton in the Players category, and Jack Parker and Daniele Sauvageau in the Builders category. Here, NHL.com senior writer Dan Rosen profiles Mogilny.

The tale of Alexander Mogilny 's defection from the Soviet Union in 1989 to play in the NHL is Hall of Fame-worthy on its own merit.

An escape on an off day in Stockholm during the 1989 IIHF World Championship. A race to the car. Evading the KGB by switching hotels and aliases. Leaving family behind without a guarantee he would see them again.

"It's a story and a movie in and of itself," Hockey Hall of Famer Pat LaFontaine said. "For Alex to do what he did, it took so mu

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