Moscow Mules

At a glance

Moscow, Russia—plays at The Copper Hall, capacity 19,600. A Season 3 arrival, sorted into La Conférence du Givre.

The second Russian team in the league arrived in Moscow like a second thought. The Mules are heavy, determined, and immune to fatigue. Their fans are not subtle.

Identity

• City: Moscow, Russia
• Arena: The Copper Hall
• Capacity: 19,600
• Colors: #B87333 / #8B0000
• Conference: La Conférence du Givre
• Joined: Season 3 expansion

Arena modifier—Kick

Each period begins with a two-minute burst of elevated home team speed. Then it fades. The kick is real but brief.

See all arena modifiers for cross-comparison.

The arena—lore

The Copper Hall is the second Russian arena to join the league, and the assessment team reports it arrived with the settled air of an institution that had merely been waiting for the paperwork. The ice is of the givre form. Under the Kick designation, each period opens with a two-minute surge of home-team speed before subsiding—brief, real, and, the assessment team notes, quite enough. The Mules are heavy, immovable, and untroubled by fatigue. Their supporters are described as not subtle, which Le Council includes verbatim because Le Council could not improve on it. The Mules do not chase the game. The game is brought to them, eventually, and they are still standing when it arrives.

The arena—building

Clad entirely in copper, unlacquered, and eleven months into a patina that has reached the color of an old kettle on the south face and nothing like it anywhere else. The hall is a plain rectangle on the outside and a fluted drum on the inside, ringed by 19,600 seats in two tiers with a broad standing gallery between them. The interior fittings are copper as well—rails, stair treads, the frames of the benches—and are warm to the hand in a building the facilities office keeps at four degrees. Sound in The Copper Hall carries in a way that flatters a full house and exposes an empty one, which has not been an issue. The clock at the northern end is mechanical, oversized, and audible from the ice. It is wound before every fixture, by hand, by someone Le Council has not been introduced to.

S.H.I.F.T. movements

Season 03 window · 12–17 October 2026

• Trade. Sent Andrei Kuznetsov (LW) to Cuzco Crows. Received Wayra Apaza (LW) in return, for the third line, round two.
• Trade. Sent Dmitri Sokolov (LW) to Havana Hammers. Received Reinier Cruz (LW) in return, for the third line, round two.
• Signing. Signed Nomsa Mahlangu (C) from the unattached pool for the third line. Released Yulia Novikova (C) to the pool, round two.
• Trade. Sent Nikolai Popov (RW) to Tahiti Tsunami. Received Heimana Wong (RW) in return, for the third line, round one.
• Trade. Sent Anastasia Volkova (C) to Zanzibar Zebras. Received Fatuma Said (C) in return, for the third line, round one.

See the S.H.I.F.T. for how a movement is filed, voted, and registered.

See also

• Teams overview—all 48 franchises.
• The conferences—how the Verglas and the Givre were sorted.
• Arena modifiers—the mechanic behind Kick.
• Glossary—every term, A–Z.