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{{Infobox ice hockey game
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On 6 September 2008, [[Slovakia women's national ice hockey team|Slovakia]] and [[Bulgaria women's national ice hockey team|Bulgaria]] played an international women's ice hockey match in [[Liepāja]], [[Latvia]] in the first round of [[2010 Winter Olympics – Women's qualification|qualification]] for the [[2010 Winter Olympics]] women's ice hockey [[2010 Winter Olympics – Women's tournament|tournament]]. Slovakia defeated Bulgaria 82–0, making this the current world record for the largest victory in a senior international ice hockey game.<ref name="Guinness">{{cite web | title=Highest score in an ice hockey match | website=Guinness World Records | date=April 20, 2023 | url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/highest-score-in-an-ice-hockey-match | access-date=April 20, 2023 | archive-date=April 20, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230420180508/https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/highest-score-in-an-ice-hockey-match | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Vice">{{cite web | last=Commito | first=Mike | title=Canada's Destruction of Denmark, and the Most Lopsided International Hockey Games | website=VICE | date=February 9, 2017 | url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/xyn8dw/canadas-destruction-of-denmark-and-the-most-lopsided-international-hockey-games | access-date=April 20, 2023 | archive-date=March 7, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307072155/https://www.vice.com/en/article/xyn8dw/canadas-destruction-of-denmark-and-the-most-lopsided-international-hockey-games | url-status=live }}</ref>

==Background==
[[Ice hockey#Women's ice hockey|Women's ice hockey]] is governed by the [[International Ice Hockey Federation]] (IIHF) and has been played at the [[Winter Olympics]] since [[Ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Women's tournament|1998]]. There were two rounds of qualification for the [[Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Women's tournament|2010 Olympics]], with the first round contested by teams ranked 13th and lower in the [[IIHF World Ranking]]. Slovakia and Bulgaria were drawn into Group A alongside [[Italy women's national ice hockey team|Italy]], [[Croatia women's national ice hockey team|Croatia]] and hosts [[Latvia women's national ice hockey team|Latvia]]. Each team would play each other once, with the group winner advancing to the final Olympic qualification round.

Going into the tournament, Slovakia was ranked 17th out of 33 national women's ice hockey teams and had competed in the lower divisions of every [[IIHF World Women's Championship|Women's World Championship]] since [[1999 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships (Lower Divisions)|1999]]. Bulgaria's national women's team had been formed just a year before the tournament,<ref name="Novinite">{{cite web | title=Bulgaria Women's Hockey Team Registers Record Loss 0:82 to Slovakia - Sofia News Agency | website=Novinite.com | date=April 20, 2023 | url=https://www.novinite.com/articles/96794/Bulgaria+Women%27s+Hockey+Team+Registers+Record+Loss+0%3A82+to+Slovakia | access-date=April 20, 2023 | archive-date=April 20, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230420180508/https://www.novinite.com/articles/96794/Bulgaria+Women%27s+Hockey+Team+Registers+Record+Loss+0%3A82+to+Slovakia | url-status=live }}</ref> and had never before competed in an IIHF-sanctioned event. In 2008, there were only 37 registered female hockey players in Bulgaria and two clubs.<ref name="Novinite"/> Before the tournament, around half of Bulgaria's players were also cut from the team after it was discovered they had not met the age limit for IIHF competition, resulting in one of the team's goalkeepers having to play as a forward.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.24chasa.bg/sport/article/824828|title=Бронзово възкресение от 0:82|trans-title=Bronze Resurrection from 0:82|language=bg|publisher=24chasa.bg|access-date=20 April 2023|archive-date=20 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230420175004/https://www.24chasa.bg/sport/article/824828|url-status=live}}</ref>

Leading up to the game, Slovakia had defeated Latvia 2–0 and Italy 3–1, while Bulgaria had fallen 0–41 to Italy, 1–30 to Croatia and 0–39 to Latvia.

==Match summary==
Iveta Karafiátová scored the opening goal for Slovakia after 57 seconds, and Slovakia went on to score 18 more times in the first 10 minutes. Slovakia led 31–0 after the first period and 55–0 after the second period. On average, Slovakia scored a goal every 44 seconds, which caused difficulties at times for the game's announcer, as he had to state details about each goal in both English and Latvian.<ref>{{cite web| title=Hockey: Slovakia - Bulgaria 82:0 part-1 (I)| website=YouTube| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A05bOLgjiB4| access-date=April 25, 2023| archive-date=May 24, 2022| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220524181318/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A05bOLgjiB4| url-status=live}}</ref> Throughout the match, Slovakia made 139 shots on the Bulgarian goal, while the Bulgarians did not shoot on the Slovak goal even once.<ref name="Report">{{cite web | title=Wayback Machine | date=March 23, 2018 | url=https://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/166/IHW166907_74_5_0.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129051413/http://reports.iihf.hockey/Hydra/166/IHW166907_74_5_0.pdf | archive-date=November 29, 2022 | url-status=live | work=[[International Ice Hockey Federation|IIHF]] | access-date=April 20, 2023}}</ref>

The game took a bizarre turn in the 57th minute. With the score at 77–0, Bulgaria's coach Roman Morgunov pulled goalkeeper Liudmila Shosheva and added an extra attacker in her place. Bulgarian player Amaliya Koleva fell onto the puck twice in an attempt to play the role of goalkeeper, thus giving Slovakia two penalty shots for delaying the game (which Slovakia scored).<ref>{{cite web| title=Hockey: Slovakia - Bulgaria 82:0 part-1 (II)| website=YouTube| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBzvurotOP8| access-date=April 20, 2023| archive-date=April 20, 2023| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230420175006/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBzvurotOP8| url-status=live}}</ref> Only after the score was 79–0 did Bulgaria put in their backup goalkeeper, Kamelia Drazheva. Slovakia promptly added three more goals, making the final score 82–0.<ref name="Report"/>

Ten seconds before the end of the game, Bulgarian forward Tina Lisichkova body checked Slovak defensewoman Petra Országhová from behind, knocking Országhová down and injuring her. As Lisichkova was leaving the ice, Slovak forward Anna Džurňáková slammed the Bulgarian over the head with her stick in retaliation.<ref>{{cite web | title=Hockey: Slovakia - Bulgaria 82:0 part-2 | website=YouTube | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RypeKwtL4U | access-date=April 20, 2023 | archive-date=April 20, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230420175014/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RypeKwtL4U&gl=US&hl=en | url-status=live }}</ref> A fight broke out between the two teams, and both Lisichkova and Džurňáková received match penalties.<ref name="Report"/>

Janka Čulíková led Slovakia's scoring in the game with ten goals, while Martina Veličková scored nine, and twelve other players scored at least once.<ref name='ESPN'>{{cite web | last=Gomez | first=Eric | last2=Deusen | first2=Amy Van | title=Slovakia beats Bulgaria 82-0 in women's hockey | website=ESPN.com | date=September 9, 2008 | url=https://www.espn.com/olympics/news/story?id=3577150 | access-date=April 20, 2023 | archive-date=April 20, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230420175300/https://www.espn.com/olympics/news/story?id=3577150 | url-status=live }}</ref>

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==Reactions==
Slovakia head coach Miroslav Karafiát expressed astonishment at the result in a post-game interview, stating "There are no words for this. We took the game as training, the girls combined and shot with enthusiasm and it ended up how it ended up."<ref name = Karafiát>{{cite web|url=https://www.hockeyslovakia.sk/sk/article/definitiva-v-liepaje-sr-bulharsko-820%E2%80%93v-bad-tolzi-nase-hokejistky-o-ucast-na-zoh|title=Definitíva v Liepaje: SR – Bulharsko 82:0, v Bad Tölzi naše hokejistky o účasť na ZOH|trans-title=Definitive in Liepaja: Slovakia – Bulgaria 82:0, women's hockey team will play in Bad Tölz for Olympic participation|language=sk|publisher=Slovak Ice Hockey Federation|access-date=20 April 2023|archive-date=28 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230428004939/https://www.hockeyslovakia.sk/sk/|url-status=live}}</ref> Karafiát also urged the IIHF to take steps to prevent similar blowouts in the future, arguing that such games "are not good propagation for the sport" and have a "crushing and demotivating effect on players who are just starting to get acquainted with the hockey world".<ref name = Karafiát/>

Chair of the [[Bulgarian Ice Hockey Federation]] Dobromir Krustev criticized the Slovak team as having made "an insulting mockery" of the Bulgarians, which was "not at all sportsmanlike".<ref name="Novinite"/> Nick Iliev of The Sofia Echo blamed the Bulgarian government for the loss, claiming the players deserved the government's apology for "embarrassing" them, and for the "pathetic state of affairs of ice hockey" in Bulgaria.<ref>{{cite web | title=Bulgarian women's ice hockey annihilated by Slovaks - Sport news | website=sofiaecho.com | date=September 12, 2008 | url=http://www.sofiaecho.com/article/bulgarian-women-s-ice-hockey-annihilated-by-slovaks/id_31631/catid_71 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080912012629/http://www.sofiaecho.com/article/bulgarian-women-s-ice-hockey-annihilated-by-slovaks/id_31631/catid_71 | archive-date=September 12, 2008 | url-status=dead | access-date=April 20, 2023}}</ref>

The game was reported on in multiple overseas news outlets including ESPN,<ref name='ESPN'/> NHL.com<ref>{{cite web | title=Slovakia routs Bulgaria 82-0 in women's hockey Olympic qualifying | website=NHL.com | date=September 9, 2008 | url=https://www.nhl.com/news/slovakia-routs-bulgaria-82-0%E2%80%93in-womens-hockey-olympic-qualifying/c-381549 | access-date=April 20, 2023 | archive-date=April 28, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230428004932/https://www.nhl.com/news/slovakia-routs-bulgaria-82-0-in-womens-hockey-olympic-qualifying/c-381549 | url-status=live }}</ref> and the Toronto Star.<ref>{{cite web | title=Slovakia routs Bulgaria 82-0 in women's hockey | website=thestar.com | date=September 9, 2008 | url=https://www.thestar.com/sports/2008/09/09/slovakia_routs_bulgaria_820_in_womens_hockey.html | access-date=April 20, 2023 | archive-date=April 20, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230420175004/https://www.thestar.com/sports/2008/09/09/slovakia_routs_bulgaria_820_in_womens_hockey.html | url-status=live }}</ref>

==Aftermath==
Slovakia went on to defeat Croatia 18–1 and finish top of their group, earning them a place in the [[Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Women's qualification#Group C|final Olympic qualification round]]. Despite being the lowest-ranked team going in, Slovakia was able to defeat [[Germany women's national ice hockey team|Germany]], [[Kazakhstan women's national ice hockey team|Kazakhstan]] and [[France women's national ice hockey team|France]] to qualify for the Olympics for the first time ever.<ref name="The Globe and Mail 2008">{{cite web | title=MacAdam: Slovakian women qualify for 2010 | website=The Globe and Mail | date=November 11, 2008 | url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/globe-on-hockey/macadam-slovakian-women-qualify-for-2010/article20438301/ | access-date=April 20, 2023 | archive-date=April 20, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230420175004/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/globe-on-hockey/macadam-slovakian-women-qualify-for-2010/article20438301/ | url-status=live }}</ref> Slovakia was not as successful in the actual [[Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Women's tournament|Olympic tournament]], as the team placed 8th and last after losing all of their games, including an infamous 18–0 defeat to [[Canada women's national ice hockey team|Canada]].<ref name="Roarke 2010">{{cite web | last=Roarke | first=Shawn P. | title=Canada routs Slovakia 18-0 in women's tournament | website=NHL.com | date=February 13, 2010 | url=https://www.nhl.com/news/canada-routs-slovakia-18-0%E2%80%93in-womens-tournament/c-517574 | access-date=April 20, 2023 | archive-date=April 28, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230428004946/https://www.nhl.com/news/canada-routs-slovakia-18-0-in-womens-tournament/c-517574 | url-status=live }}</ref> Slovakia has not qualified for the women's tournament at the Olympics since then.

Bulgaria took part in their first Women's World Championship in [[2011 IIHF Women's World Championship|2011]], where they placed third on home ice in the [[2011 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships – Division V|Division V tournament]], and have since become a regular part of the World Championship structure.

In response to this and other lopsided results in women's international ice hockey, the IIHF under [[René Fasel]] considered instituting a mercy rule for the women's game in 2010,<ref>{{cite web | title=Mercy rule possible for women's hockey: IIHF - CBC Sports | website=CBC | date=February 19, 2010 | url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/2.722/mercy-rule-possible-for-women-s-hockey-iihf-1.920972 | access-date=April 20, 2023 | archive-date=April 20, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230420175005/https://www.cbc.ca/sports/2.722/mercy-rule-possible-for-women-s-hockey-iihf-1.920972 | url-status=live }}</ref> though this ended up not materializing.

==Records==
Guinness World Records currently lists the result as the "highest score in an ice hockey match".<ref name="Guinness"/> Slovakia's win in fact did set a record for the most goals and highest margin of victory in a senior international game, beating the previous record of 58–0 set by [[Australia men's national ice hockey team|Australia]] against [[New Zealand men's national ice hockey team|New Zealand]] at the [[1987 Ice Hockey World Championships#World Championship Group D (Australia)|1987 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships]].<ref name="Vice"/> However, if junior results are counted, [[South Korea men's national under-18 ice hockey team|South Korea's under-18 team]] would hold that record, as they defeated [[Thailand men's national under-18 ice hockey team|Thailand]] 92–0 at the [[1998 IIHF Asian Oceanic Junior U18 Championship]].<ref>{{cite book |title=International Ice Hockey Encyclopaedia 1904–2005 |last=Müller |first=Stephan |year=2005 |publisher=Books on Demand |location=Germany |isbn=3-8334-4189-5 |pages=389–393 }}</ref>

==References==
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