Hockey Hall of Fame Names 2022 Inductees & Alexander Mogilny Didn't Make It -- Again

The 2022 Hockey Hall of Fame Induction Class has been unveiled and Alexander Mogilny gets snubbed yet again:

Henrik Sedin*
Daniel Sedin*
Roberto Luongo*
Daniel Alfredsson
Riikka Sallinen
Herb Carnegie

* = First Year of Eligibility

Henrik & Daniel Sedin combined for 2,636 NHL games & 2111 points plus an additional 207 playoff matches with 149 playoff points. Daniel was the recipient of the 2011 Art Ross Trophy & Ted Lindsay Award. Henrik received the 2010 Art Ross & Hart Memorial Trophies, and between them they also have three King Clancy Memorial Trophies. Henrik was the Vancouver Canucks' captain for eight seasons, and both of them won Olympic gold for Sweden in 2006.

Roberto Luongo was one of the NHL's best goaltenders during his career, sporting a 2.52 goals-against average & a .919 SV% over 1044 NHL matches in which he went 489-392-124, including 77 shutouts. He also backstopped Canada to Olympic gold twice, and was a Vezina finalist thrice. He also won the William J. Jennings Trophy in 2011. One of his strongest attributes is his humor:

Daniel Alfredsson's 1157 points in 1246 NHL matches is good enough for a .93 points/game average. The 14-season Senators' captain won the Calder Memorial Trophy in 1996, the 2012 King Clancy Memorial Trophy, and the 2013 Mark Messier Leadership Award. He also won the 2006 Olympic gold medal for Sweden.

The lone woman of the bunch, Riikka Sallinen, is a legend for Suomi. She played for the Finnish national women's team for 16 seasons, earning two Olympic bronze medals, one World Championship silver medal, and six Worlds bronze medals.

Herb Carnegie is arguably the biggest story of the group. Carnegie, who is considered one of the best hockey players to never appear in the NHL (largely due to race), founded the Future Aces Hockey School, Future Aces Foundation and the Future Aces Creed. Carnegie was named to the Order of Canada in 2003. He died in 2012 at the age of 92. The push to get Mr. Carnegie into the HHoF is an incredible story, available here:

One massive undertone to this year's induction class is the omission of a few players who have been on the ballot for years & still are not in the Hall. Especially with the Sedin twins & Roberto Luongo earning first-ballot tickets. Alexander Mogilny had more points/game than each of the Sedin twins, is a member of the Quadruple Gold Club--World Junior, World Championship, Olympics, & Stanley Cup--a 6-time All-Star, Lady Byng & Rocket Richard winner, and oh yeah, he was the first Russian player to defect from the former Soviet Union, risking his & his families' safety to do so. His defection completely altered the landscape of the NHL & hockey culture, and his omission from the Hockey Hall of Fame is an absolute joke at this point. Every year he is not in the Hall of Fame, the credibility of the institution gets worse & worse.

No disrespect to Henrik & Daniel Sedin or Roberto Luongo, who all had Hall of Fame careers, but their first-ballot nominations while guys like Pierre Turgeon, Keith Tkachuk, Patrik Elias, and of course Alexander Mogilny lie in wait seems wrong. Just me though.

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