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bri
9/8/2008, 10:20 AM
Where's Mike Lupica when you need him? (http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/08092008/58/worst-team-international-sport.html)


Bulgaria were beaten 82-0 by Slovakia in a women's ice hockey qualifier for the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Bulgaria conceded a goal every 44 seconds in the Latvian town of Liepaja. They trailed 7-0 after five minutes, 19-0 after ten and 31-0 after one period.

In their previous matches, they had lost 30-1 to Croatia and 41-0 to Italy.


Dang. Just...dang.

BigRedJed
9/8/2008, 11:47 AM
Jeez. Did they even have hockey sticks? How about skates? You would think they could just STAND IN THE WAY and defend better than that.

bri
9/8/2008, 12:25 PM
For some reason, I keep thinking about the West Wing episode where Sam Seaborn keeps insisting that a sumo wrestler would be the greatest hockey goalie ever.

Mixer!
9/8/2008, 07:40 PM
It made me think of the Monty Python skit with the pirates playing soccer.

mfosterftw
9/8/2008, 09:38 PM
There was a WJC Div. III tournament in 1998 that had a team from Thailand... In a game against Australia... the final score was 92-0.

Here's a more recent game:


Thailand scores but loses big in Asian Games hockey

Associated Press

January 29, 2007 at 10:07 AM EDT

Changchun, China — Kazakhstan put 52 goals past Thailand in Asian Winter Games hockey action Monday, but the goal that brought the most cheer came from the outgunned Thais.

The Asian ice hockey little guys went into the game knowing they were going to lose to tournament favourite Kazakhstan, but an opportune goal seven minutes into the third period was celebration enough in the 52-1 loss.

The hero was forward Arthit Thamwongsin, who jumped on a rebound off the boards to slam a shot past Kazakhstan goaltender Sergey Ogureshnikov.

Up to that point, the highlight for the Thais had been when defenceman Terani Harnnarujchai bodychecked one of the linesmen into the boards.

"They are just an outstanding team," Thailand's American coach Michael Rolanti said of Kazakhstan, which competed in the Turin Winter Olympics.

"I think it was a good game for us because we did not give up."

Rolanti is a former college player at Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., who was managing a chain of English schools in Bangkok when he was asked to help coach the national team.

"We only have about 40 guys in the whole country to pick from," said Rolanti.

The Thais were outshot 97-7, with six of those shots coming in the third period as the Thais managed a few chances, including one breakaway which was stopped by Ogureshnikov.

Rolanti said there are only two ice rinks in Thailand, which lost 4-0 to the United Arab Emirates in its opening game.

Kazakhstan's leading scorer was Oleg Yeremeyev, with seven goals.

Kazakhstan also had an easy time in its first game, beating the UAE 38-0, and is expected to meet Japan in the final Saturday.

Hong Kong is another tournament minnow, coached by former Vancouver Canuck David Saunders.

His players range in age from 19 to 49-year-old Samuel Wong, the captain and goaltender.

Saunders played for the Canucks in 1987-88, worked on Wall Street and set up an emerging markets trading desk in Hong Kong.

While there, he became an investor in a company building Hong Kong's first full-size hockey rink, which opens this summer. That led local sports officials to ask him to coach the team.


Then there's the Armenian team... From 2006...


Armenia Falls To 0-4 With 28-3 Loss

With a loss Sunday to Turkey, the Armenian under-20 men's national hockey team (first chronicled here) has lost all four of its round-robin games, and fell to dead last in its pool. So how bad did it get for Armenia after its 50-0 loss to Iceland? Actually, it got better. But not much.

Against Bulgaria, the Armenians lost 21-2. Against Lithuania, Armenia lost 47-1 (and was outshot - are you ready for this - 124-5). And finally against Turkey the Armenians lost 28-3 in front of a crowd of just 620. Ready for some totals? Of course you are:

* Armenia's goal differential was -140 over the four games.

* Fortunately for them, only 2,921 total fans saw the games (unfortunately for them, there's an internet).

* Armenian goalie Harutyun Baluyan played all sixty minutes of all four games, facing 409 shots on goal and making 263 saves (for a .643 save percentage).

* Armenia fired 46 shots in the four games, thereby being outshot by an average of about 102 to 12 over the four games.

* Armenian forward Aram Simonyan had a plus/minus rating of minus-86 in four games.

So remember, Caps fans, as bad as it gets, it could be worse... we could be Armenian hockey fans.

silverwheels
9/9/2008, 02:32 AM
For some reason, I keep thinking about the West Wing episode where Sam Seaborn keeps insisting that a sumo wrestler would be the greatest hockey goalie ever.

A female Bulgarian sumo wrestler in net...that is hot.