PITTSBURGH - Evgeni Malkin's former Russian Super League team, the Metallurg Magnitogorsk, has sued the Pittsburgh Penguins claiming that the Pens tortiously interfered with the Russian team's contract with Malkin by signing him to play in Pittsburgh.The complaint does not seek money damages but requests entry of an order directing the entire Penguins organization, including all players and front office personnel, to report to a former Soviet Gulag on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea for extended incarceration. "There," the complaint asserts, "the venal capitalists will be subjected to the malnutrition, extreme production quotas, appalling housing conditions and woefully inadequate hygiene attendant to the life befitting one interferes with another's contract."
Penguins' team officials had no comment on the suit because the team has not been formally served with the complaint. An official of the Pittsburgh Zoo confirmed that attempted service was erroneously made on certain of the zoo's penguins late this afternoon, but the birds refused to accept service.
