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January 30, 2007
That's gotta hurt
I've played on some crappy sports teams in my times, but I don't think I've ever gotten whooped on like this:
Kazakhstan beat Thailand 52-1 to wrap up their ruthless march through the group stage of the Asian Games ice hockey tournament yesterday. A search of records indicated the game was the highest scoring match in Olympics history.
Kazakhstan is currently ranked 11th in the world in the sport. Thailand is unranked.
Other tops teams have taken it easy against the amateurs from warmer countries but the pre-tournament favourites scored 17 goals in the first period, 20 in the second and eased up only slightly to score 15 in the last third of the game.
The scoring was spread fairly evenly through the roster and Oleg Yeremeyev took the biggest haul with seven goals inside the first two periods as Kazakhstan added this rout to a 38-0 drubbing of the UAE.
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Posted by oz115 at January 30, 2007 12:22 AM
Comments
That's an amazing deficit for a hockey game. The closest comparable deficit I've experienced personally was my 7th grade basketball team, which in one game scored the opening basket but then went scoreless for the rest of the game. The final score was 54-2.
Posted by: Pete at January 30, 2007 09:53 AM