Sep 9, 2008

Slovakia Slaughters Bulgarian Women's Hockey Team


Did the Bulgarian team not have sticks? or ice skates? or a goalie?

ESPN: There's the "agony of defeat." And then there's this women's ice hockey score from the European Olympic pre-qualifying tournament: Slovakia 82, Bulgaria 0. That's correct: 82 goals for Slovakia, none for Bulgaria.

The International Ice Hockey Federation said the result set a record score for a women's IIHF-sanctioned event. It was not the all-time record for futility, however; that is still held by Thailand, which lost 92-0 to South Korea in the 1998 Asia-Oceania U18 Championship.

Slovakia, which won all 4 of its games at the tournament, outshot Bulgaria 139-0, scoring on 58.9 percent of their shots on goal. They averaged one goal every 44 seconds.

The drubbing capped a woeful showing for the Bulgarian women, who also lost 30-1 to Croatia and 41-0 to Italy in earlier games.

1 comment:

Pirates(and)Diplomats said...

This must have been painful to watch, even for Slovakian fans.