From Underdog to Legend: The Untold Story Behind Mogilny’s Hockey Hall of Fame Triumph
“So we started practice, and I started feeding him one-timers or whatever and he was like, ‘Throw it wherever you want.’ And I was throwing it behind him, in front of him, and every shot was just, like, perfect. Then afterward he said to me, ‘See, I told you. Just throw it anywhere.’ I was like, ‘Holy cow, this is awesome.’ So I got a lot of assists just throwing it to ‘Almo.'”
It helped, Lamoriello said, that Mogilny knew how Russian players like Slava Fetisov and Alexei Kasatonov had been treated by the Devils. Sergei Brylin and Sergei Nemchinov were on the Devils when Mogilny got to New Jersey.
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