Worst drubbing in history

I don’t know what the actual record is for biggest good ol’ fashioned ass whooping in sports history, but this has to be close. I would have thought the biggest stomping may have been when the Washington Redskins were on the business end of a 73-0 loss to the Bears in the 1940 NFL Championship game.

Nope, this is worse. And it’s hockey!

The women’s ice hockey team from Slovakia skated with the Bulgarian women’s ice hockey team over the weekend in a 2010 Olympic qualifier. I don’t think Bulgaria is going to make the Olympics. Call it a hunch, but when you lose in any sport 82-0, you probably have to rethink whether or not you should even be playing said sport.

That’s right, the Bulgarians lost a hockey game…82-0.

I’ll say it again: 82-0.

What I want to know is what is going through everyone’s head (thanks, Michelle Tafoya) at 31-0? ‘Maybe we should cancel this game?’ ‘Maybe we should stay in the locker room after the first period and sneak out the back?’

The game was 7-0 after five minutes, 19-0 after 10 minutes, and 31-0 after only one period. The Bulgarians were down 77-0 with three minutes to go, when they put in their backup goalie. She proceeded to give up five more goals in 1:25.

12 players had hat tricks and Maria Herichova netted 18 goals herself.

I’m still trying to wrap my head around how it’s physically possible to score this many goals in a given time frame. Didn’t some pucks accidentally hit the goalie? I guess not.

I think my favorite part is that the decision to pull the starting goalie came after 77 goals were scored.

Micah Warren is the Blast Magazine sports editor

In Hockey, News, Olympics, Sports on September 8, 2008 at 17:29

2 Responses to “Worst drubbing in history”

  1. Bulgarian women’s ice hockey loses 82-0; gives up more goals in four tournament games than Red Wings did last regular season on September 10th, 2008 1:03 am

    [...] some believed the 82-0 defeat could have been the worst loss in ice hockey history, Eric McErlain of FanHouse writes that it’s not even the worst loss in [...]

  2. Derek on September 10th, 2008 10:59 am

    This just in…

    Bulgarian Women’s hockey team 5, St. Louis Rams 3

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