experienced firepower remains, however, with Sergei Mozyakin and Alexei Kaigorodov still on the roster, while the defense is set to be marshaled once again by Oleg Tverdovsky.

According to Velichkin, Magnitka 2012 is a work in progress, and he has cautioned fans not to expect too much, too soon. But while the plan is to rejuvenate the club from its foundations, one star name – perhaps the biggest of all – will always be welcome back at his boyhood club.

Evgeny Malkin, star of the Pittsburgh Penguins and hero of Russia’s 2012 World Championship winning team, learned his trade at the Magnitogorsk school. And with the prospect of an NHL lock-out prompting more and more speculation about which Russian clubs might capitalize on the situation and lure some big namesmuch, and he "fell upon" the ladies with a sword, but, just as he was about to stab them to the heart, he was changed into a Hoopoe, Philomela into a nightingale, Procne into a swallow, while Itylus became a pheasant.

_His crest and patent of nobility_.--Once upon a time, King Solomon, while making a royal progress, was much, incommoded by the powerful rays of the sun, and as he had ascendency over the birds, and

knew their language, he called upon the vultures to come and fly betwixt the sun and his nobility, but the vultures refused. Then the kindly Hoopoes assembled, and flew in close mass above his head, thus forming a shade under which he proceeded on his journey in ease and comfort.

At sundown the monarch sent