Mercy Rule? Anyone?
by MaxPower
This has been around for a while, the 82-0 slaughter of Bulgaria's Women's Hockey team at the hands of the Slovaks.
The clip above is the second of two and starts off with the score 77-0. As you can see from the first clip, basically the Bulgarian women can't skate backwards... at all. This is seriously novice level skating here. Then in the above clip, the Bulgarians pull their goalie and have a player jump on loose pucks which leads to penalty shots (can't cover the puck up in the crease). You can't make this stuff up - but I guess the strategy would be that the goalie has a better chance on a breakaway versus having traffic in front of the net. Either that or the coach doesn't know the rules.
Obviously I feel bad for the Bulgarian wome but Slovakia isn't even good - they are ranked 17th in women's hockey. But I can guarantee you Canada wouldn't have run the score up to 82-0. Bulgaria only has 299 women registered as hockey players and only 3 indoor rinks, so you can't expect them to play competitively.
But when a beat down of this magnitude happens, it deserves a mention.