A Failure In (Girls) Hockey

Everyone knows about bad seasons in sports history. *cough* ...Detriot Lions!

The Lions' first 0-16 season in NFL history completed a 10-year freefall, where they were undone by one bad personnel move after another. More on that at another time (once football season roles around of coarse). For now, let's stick with hockey and baseball.

With that being said, did you know about an 82-0 defeat by Slovakia against Bulgaria?

No, that's not a typo.

I don't faile at typing (yet).

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.

The IIHF (International Ice Hockey Federation) spoke about the result as 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 (another failurism) (this post is two-in-one!).

Don't believe me? See for yourself: