Hockey's Wildest Blowouts | Weird Stories of Hockey

[@RonanDahlman-ci1ql]

Division III-B be wildin’.

[@RonanDahlman-ci1ql]

Also, now I know what a Crushage is, so thanks for that.

[@PinholesGraham]

To be clear, I don't want to make it sound like I'm ragging on lower-tier teams or nations with less experience in the IIHF. I love that they are playing and enjoying hockey worldwide and I fully support them. It's just funny to me that the scores can get so out of hand so easily.

[@TheMemeBorrower.]

I love this. The niche stat topics that don’t necessarily benefit you by knowing them, but they do make you go: *_“huh.”_* Those are my favourite type of stats.

[@hockeyxchange3]

The “oh no” sequence was pure gold 🏅

[@nikevisor54]

Highly recommend checking in on IIHF livestreams every so often. The hockey isn't NHL quality (obviously) but they're hilariously hectic and the chat tend to be quite lively

[@NorthernKnights]

Thank you Graham. I now have so much more appreciation for the fact the worst we ever see in the NHL nowadays is 7-0

[@AvsJoe]

You still see the occasional whomping here and there. I still remember 6-ish years ago when Montreal got walloped by Columbus 10-0 and got meme'd to high heaven for it. Then a couple weeks later they took their frustrations out on us by beating the Avs 10-1. All us Avs fans could really say at the time was "At least we didn't get shut out?".

[@theawayfan6052]

Very interesting video, I think my favorite section was hearing that piano at the end. Good to have you back dude, keep crushing it.

[@icewyre]

Pretty sure my team beat another team 28-3 in rec league once. Usually they stop counting goals if you're up by like 7ish, but this scorekeeper... he didn't give a rip about that I guess haha

[@ravenshade266]

Thank goodness there’s not a fourth quarter in hockey. Those 28-3s will get ya.

[@Supernova2464]

It’s really reassuring that I’m not the only one to watch these low tier IIHF championships

[@chrisuncleahmad666]

A playoff series that I think would be worth a look in a future video: 2009 Ducks at Red Wings (Battle of Champions)

[@PinholesGraham]

Nostradamus!

[@Guafarina]

The 47-0 of 1949 and the Bulgaria vs Slovakia reminds me of the Australia 31-0 American Samoa in soccer for a World Cup qualifier. Which to me is crazy to think about since the disparity in hockey is so much greater than in soccer and Australia is a fringe team in international soccer.

[@mike04574]

Even though australia isnt the best football team, they were certainly one of the best in the region at the time. American samoa was probably one of the worst teams in the world

[@Guafarina]

@@mike04574 best in the region, at that time, didn’t mean that much. This was reflected by the fact that no Oceania team had qualified to a WC since 1982 and this Australian team didn’t even end up qualifying either to the WC in 02. They were eliminated by Uruguay in the playoff. So, by all accounts, Australia was indeed a fringe team in world football at that time. In the tier of Division 2 or 3 in hockey. And yes, certainly American Samoa was actually the worst team in the world. They had the worst ranking in the entire planet and had lost all of their matches since joining FIFA in 98’. Either way, it’s clear that the Oceania region simply has very low resources even for a sport like soccer.

[@BTG077]

Blowouts are interesting in hockey, but the more there are, the less exciting games are to watch. That 22-0 Krygystan win over Malaysia couldn't have been watched by that many people. Nice video as always, Pinholes! (PS, My suggestion for a future Playoff Past [if one's not already in progress] is 2009 between San Jose and Anaheim. It's one of the rare times an 8th seed victory over the President's Trophy winners doesn't get talked about much after it happened. I wouldn't mind seeing it brought back to life, thanks!)

[@jelomapleleaf]

I haven't thought too much about the international scene before, so this was a great introduction for me. I'm happy to have learned that nowhere is safe from absolutely one-sided stomps!

[@LéonLeFoxe]

Honey wake up! Pinhole uploaded another video! Honestly tho this was a great one and really helped me understand how different the IIHF can be from The Leagues were used too.

[@callumknight6082]

And this brings up one of the oldest questions in sports. Is it more disrespectful to run up the score or to stop trying to score?

[@AvsJoe]

My answer is always the former, there does come a point around the 8th goal lead where a comeback becomes utterly impossible. But of course if goals scored or goal differential is a tie-breaker in the tournament, you CANNOT stop scoring; if you put yourself in a worse position come the knockout stages because you chose mercy or decorum and lose because of it, you will be justifiably torn to shreds by your fans.

[@danielsavitz5774]

According to the original box score of the 82-0 crushage, 9 goals were scored within 10 seconds of the previous goal. In this past NHL regular season, this happened 8 times, *total*. Really it shows the parity in the two government's attitudes towards women's athletics at the time.

[@FamilyGuyRoks6]

surprised there was no mention of the fact that in that same 1998 tournament with Japan, there was a game between South Korea and Thailand where SK won 92-0, and more for that matter, there were 9 games out of the 15 that were played that the winning team won by 20 goals or more, it was just ludicrous. 406 total goals scored in 15 games... absolutely wild haha

[@eurybot4659]

i love these kinds of chaotic topics, especially in the realm of sports and hockey

[@John-ew4yn]

Awesome video man! For somebody like me that just started watching hockey this year and fell in love with, it’s really important that somebody out there has documented such a niche history of the sport. Thank you!!!

[@AzFYouTube]

Jon Bois influence is very noticeable in this one. Which is a very very good style to have, but you honestly still made it your own. Love your content, super high quality and hoping you get more attention as time goes on!

[@johnronald9767]

Fun fact about the 1949 Canada - Denmark game was that it was Denmark’s first ever international match, and unfortunately for them, they got stuck playing Canada…

[@Supernova2464]

This is the funniest video since Playoffs Past Ep 0

[@YG-mi3vj]

Wasn't there a game where South Korea beat Thailand 92-0? The mother of all crushages

[@calebos268]

These scores hurt my eyes lol

[@strats991]

Great video. There's a mistake, though. At 10:00, you stated 6 games played but there were 5.

[@ShlumpGaming]

This was a fantastic video! The effort is off the charts here!

[@ballsincement]

This was a great video man seriously i watch lots of hockey content and i wish i’d see more videos in this style

[@ezwelchman]

imagine making 57 saves and still losing 82-0 LMAAAOOOOO

[@bens5661]

YES, THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE THINGS TO LOOK AT.

[@MKISports]

Slovakia as a team in 2008 scored 1 more goal than Kobe Bryant's 81 points alone. JEESUS CHRIST, WTF HAPPENED, BULGARIA?!

[@1bert719]

I remember going to a British cup match in the 90's where the newly formed but highly fancied Manchester Storm got beat 22-3. Seeing it in the newspaper next day many assumed it was a typo and that they'd won 3-2. 🤔🤕😋

[@SIGuy7480]

the blow outs are what make the IIHF fun

[@Supernova2464]

Oh my god! It’s a Pinholes Graham video!!!

[@arefriendselectricc]

Surprised you didn't talk about Liechtenstein curb stomping Portugal 21-0 in the development cup this year. The full game is on KZbin.

[@LSA30]

Another Pinholes Graham upload, another banger!

[@maxfunk5773]

Return of the King.

[@Pocket_Jake]

these videos are SO good

[@wilo_2961]

you watch these too?

[@wilo_2961]

honestly my favorite part was learning that north korea has a hockey team

[@Pocket_Jake]

@@wilo_2961 yessir

[@Frekgrek-je9lv]

Wow very good, got me hooked on blowouts.

[@CanadaMudkip]

You forgot about the time that South Korea beat Thailand 96-0

[@davidshayayev7167]

Finally a pinholes graham video, god is good

[@Ivaneus27]

I'm honestly a bit surprised by Singapore in this list. Back when I was there you could count the number of available ice surfaces for the whole nation without running out of fingers on one hand (it was 3 IIRC). To see how brutally they slapped around poor Malaysia is a bit shocking. Also, congratulations to those two ASEAN nations for making it to the IIHF with national teams! Edit: Just got back from taking a look at the MAS - SG game, the first goal is 8 seconds in, there's a tripping penalty 13 seconds in, and then I saw 2 forecheckers on the PK hold 5 players in their zone and make the breakout a nightmare. You never see anything like this in the NHL!

[@matejtrnovec9144]

I am from Slovakia and I do remember hearing about that match. Somewhere on YT is also a highlight. Funniest thing is that announcer is too slow for number of goals scored. Like it is 9-0 and he is still announcing 6th goal. In the 90s when senior Slovak team was qualifying from C division (because after split up of Czechoslovakia Czechs gone directly to elite group but Slovakia needed to proove itself - riddiculously imagine Peter Stastny and Miroslav Satan plsying against Romania), there was a match also with Bulgaria that was like 20:0. Very funny times. I even remember matches in elite WC between Norway and Germany that ended like 12:3 or Slovakia Japan 10:1.

[@_roko_]

lol, how did I only find this video now, just 2 weeks before this video was made I fell down this exact same rabbit hole

[@spiderroach4301]

I didn't know it but I needed this video

[@Mlchael839]

I have a game that I think perfectly encaptulates the Leafs-Canadiens rivalry. It was chippy, there were a lot of questionable hits, controversary on both sides, exciting action from start to finish, and a beautiful OT winner. You should break down this game, which took place on October 22, 2011. Even though both teams ended up having bad seasons, that game was definitely a highlight and remains one I enjoy going back to every now and then.

[@LatinxGoyslop1994]

Babe, wake up. New Pinholes video just dropped

[@graedencolhoun]

Another great video🤝

[@mattheww7846]

Missing the 92-0 U18 Thailand massacre

[@johnnycanuck123video]

In the 2017 European Youth Olympic Festival U16 tournament, team Russia won 42-0 against the Turkish team. Future Canuck Vasily Podkolzin recorded a hat trick and four assists, Flames prospect Nikolaev notched one goal, and Jets Prospect Kyazev got four goals and four assists. Shots were 9 to 113. Rough one for the Turkish.

[@tsaageotrimm]

Crushage, thats a new word! And I love it. Great word. *crushage*

[@_evangupta]

My buddy played for Kyrgyzstan in that world championship. He said they were only in that div cause the IIHF forced them to be relegated cause they had some illegal Russian imports (i think). He won best dman and played Jr. A in Canada in the GOJHL

[@coastaku1954]

Watching the London Knights this season, I have seen a few Crushages. The most notable is a game against the Owen Sound Attack, a perpetual lower tier team we swept in last year's first round of the playoffs, merely a speedbump to our trip the finals. The game was postponed a little bit due to snow delaying Owen Sound's bus, with the sight of bored knights players playing soccer in the player's tunnel, and them hanging out in team wear on the bench. Then the game starts, less than 2 minutes into the game, Max McCue scores first, and the stage is set for a massive blowout, no, a crushage. That goal, that first goal, was the GAME WINNING GOAL. It was a 10-0 SHUTOUT. My arms were hurting from celebrating the goals, the Arena was emptying out in the second period since the crowd knew it was going to be a blowout anyways. There was 5 goals... in the first period! This was during London's massive 14 game win streak, which was part of a bigger 24 game point streak, and during Easton Cowan's absolutely incredible 36 game Point Streak (Which still hasn't ended if you count the two playoff games the Knights played so far). Other crushages include: 10-3 against Kitchener, 8-1 against Kingston, 9-2 against Sarnia, 8-2 also against Owen Sound, 9-2 against Flint, and 10-7 against Windsor. There was also an 8-2 by the Soo Greyhounds against us, but we don't count that one. The London Knights won this season with 104 points, good for the Hamilton Spectator Trophy for Regular Season Champs, they also had the best Penalty Kill, Best Power Play and Fewest goals against Update: London SWEPT the OHL Finals, as well as 2 other series this past playoffs. The finals were a wash of crushages. Game 1: 8-1 Knights. Game 2: 9-1 Knights (With a Michigan as the 8th goal of the game). Game 3: 7-6 Knights (Down 6-2 at the end of the 2nd, they rallied back 4 straight to tie it before OT, then 2 mins into 2OT, they completed a 5 straight goal comeback!). Then Game 4: 7-1 Knights. The final score was 33-9 Knights over the Oshawa Generals. For 3 of the 4 games, Oshawa looked like a Peewee team up against an NHL team, I was there for games 1 and 2 and I was belly laughing the whole time, wondering if this was all Oshawa had. Even funnier is that Oshawa's Goalie, Jacob Oster, who let in most of those goals (He let in 8 goals in game 2 before being pulled), was crowned Regular Season goalie of the year before the playoffs XD, meanwhile the Knights, who didn't have a player score more than 36 goals, but had 9 players score at least 20 goals, made him look like he wasn't there. We unfortunately lost the Memorial Cup final to the host Saginaw Spirit, which we eliminated in the Western Conference Final in 6 games, the only series we didn't sweep

[@defn0tjake]

"less of a score and more of a manning era colts record" got me good

[@sawyerwolff269]

It's crazy how he can make any random thing interesting to me

[@JerryCuberton]

I've been keeping track of this year's tourneys they aint bad

[@Gigabowser4]

Can't tonight honey, Pinholes Graham just dropped

[@mwal223]

The sheer lack of pairity between the IIHF divisions is so interesting to me. The Slovakian women's team scoring the most goals ever in IIHF play only to be shut out 18-0 by Canada really puts it into perspective.

[@footfungus6226]

An absolute crushage that was completely unexpected was game 6 of the 1991 SCF with the penguins crushing the poor north stars to death in their own arena and winning cup all at once! The final score was 8 to 0

[@ericksheldon3870]

BABE WAKE UP NEW PINHOLES GRAHAM VIDEO

[@TripleAlfafa]

Good stuff.

[@amazingkook143]

Man, the talent disparity is just insane.

[@juhaetelaniemi7532]

I think the biggest goal differential in a mens official World Championship game (as even the lower divisions and groups get to use that title) is 58 - 0, from 1987, when Australia just destroyed New Zealand in third division(?). The "blame" for such a one-sided game has been later pinned on two facts: 1) New Zealand had just recently put together a team, and started competing (1987 might have even been their first tournament ever) and 2) Team Australia was largely put together from second generation immigrants, who had either Finnish or Canadian heritage.

[@jahziyatheexpediametlifekf7257]

You forgot: March 15th, 1998: South Korea vs Thailand (IIHF Asian Oceanic U-18 Championship) 92-0 South Korea

[@abe1996]

That flag is not Italy, it's Romania.

[@Buckeyesfanashost]

The Slovakia 82-0 Bulgaria Match Wasn't actually the highest scoring match from what i heard. Apparently During the 90’s South Korea Won Against Thailand 92-0

[@calibra0104]

I just feel sad, after hearing Rick cry

[@isthatrubble]

I am almost certain the australia vs poland score shown at 6:17 is supposed to be austria vs poland (and I think there's at least one more in that sequence that's wrong in the same way) AUT = austria AUS = australia although it would be nice to be curbstomping poland and uh..... north korea? edit: okay I looked it up and the north korea one is real, apparently, but since we weren't in the same group as poland that year I'm pretty sure *that* one is actually austria

[@nathancarlson5339]

There was one that involved Iceland and South Africa and Iceland won like 159-0 or so,e thong stupid like that

[@valpix7007]

As someone who actually watches degenerate international hockey (I maintained a massive spreadsheet last season for all IIHF WC tournaments - i.e. WC, U20, U18... fun fact, the biggest crushage was Australia 28-0 South Africa in the D-III World Juniors), the Kygryzstan games in particular deserve some greater context. In 2019, they entered the WC program for the first time in Div III-B, and blew away their opponents with ease. However, before their final game against the UAE, one of their players was deemed ineligible and thus their prior wins were all vacated. This sent them to Div IV as a relegated team, which was set to launch for 2020. But of course there was no WC in 2020, and only the top flight played in 2021. So they finally get their chance and maul everyone en route to gold in 2022 with a +62 GD in 4 games. However... that was before the Russia/Belarus bans and planned newcomers for 2023 shoving basically everyone in that division (save for Kuwait, who finished bottom, and the Philippines, who intended to participate but withdrew) up to 3B to backfill. Which...essentially meant that Kyrgyzstan were playing the same fucking teams they just played, just with Kuwait swapped out for Bosnia-Herzegovina (who got relegated) and Hong Kong (who had withdrawn in 2022). Oh by the way that ineligible player? Actually turned out he was eligible but the IIHF never went back on it, and he still plays for them today. His name is Alexander Titov and he had 18 points, making him the third top scorer on the team. (Top scorer Mamed Seifulov had 28 points, including a seven goal game against Malaysia and four goals against Iran.)

[@Parker_Bond]

isn't the biggest international crushing South Korea 92-0 Thailand? It was U-18 not senior though.

[@dogwithheadphones]

Moral of the story: Team USA getting completely wrecked by Team Iceland in their first match in Mighty Ducks D2 was really not that inaccurate

[@82dorrin]

If you ever feel useless, remember that Slovakia had a goaltender in net for their game against Bulgaria.

[@DogWarrior1010]

Damn My Minecraft Hockey Team lost 1 Point worst then the (24-2) & didn't get any points We lose 25-0 against our Rivals

[@PinholesGraham]

Minecraft hockey??? Where can one learn more about such things?

[@ruttepii8390]

Playing chel against the CPU on rookie mode be like

[@getcrazed2000]

What about South Korea 92 - Thailand 0?

[@adampetten5349]

Canada vs Bulgaria in womens hockey could be 300-0 with shots 1000-0.

[@faunbudweis]

Unlike Canadiens, who almost always let down when they lead by a huge margin and dont humiliate their opponents, the soviets/russians, like the bullies they consciously or subconsciously all are, love to do this to much weaker opponents.

[@brandensimmons653]

82-0 had to be a mistake right right

[@PinholesGraham]

It was a mistake for Bulgaria to show up XD

[@ericksheldon3870]

@@PinholesGraham I remember when I was a kid reading about that in the Guinness world records book and I didn’t think it was real

[@jonastibben8614]

82 to NOTHING

[@Kiwi_J]

Polska gurom

[@KiloOne]

This video was sponsored by the Sickos Committee

[@StrYEETWizard911]

I know about 47-0 game so I can’t wait to hear about how it’s the worst dubbing ever Edit: oh…. Oh no