Lots Of NHL Players Have Headed To A Russian City That Is Essentially A Toxic Waste Dump

Magnitogorsk, Russia. Our kind of town. They've got one hell of a hockey team, with Evgeni Malkin and Nikolai Kulemin, and all the rest. They just added the Avalanche's Ryan O'Reilly. What's in the latest headlines over there?

Magnitogorsk Resident Gets Stuck in Garbage Chute

Oh. Great place. But the town's garbage chutes might actually be its most hospitable quarter. Listen up, to Stefan Fatsis, on this week's excerpt from Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen:

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