Cummings says Zardozi is funny because, physically, she’s no Empire Rose. “It’d be like the Matryoshka dolls,” he says. “She’d fit inside Empire Rose many times over.

Nesting dolls are everywhere in Russia, but most of them are fake. In a small town outside Nizhny, this is how the real matryoshkas are made.

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That’s where it linked up with longtime Panthers goaltender and executive Roberto Luongo, in his hometown of Saint-Leonard. Luongo posted a photo of himself with Cup, and there was something ...