The “Russian factor” has been an issue of varying significance since the late 1980s. In 1989, Alexander Mogilny became the first Russian hockey player to defect from the then-Soviet Union...
https://thehockeywriters.com/2022-nhl-draft-potential-fallers-russians/
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