Fire and Brimstone! Gagarin Cup tours Steel City

While one could describe the Gagarin Cup’s trip around Moscow last Friday as a tour of its birthplace, it would be just as true to say that the coveted trophy’s visit to the famous Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works on Tuesday was a journey back to its roots. When our ancestors began to smelt copper and tin five millennia ago, they ushered in the Bronze Age, that golden era of gods and heroic warriors who are still revered to this day (some even have sports clubs, including KHL hockey teams, named in their honor), and sure enough, in this part of the world, the Championship final series is seen as an epic Clash of the Titans.