Well, apparently there are 2 ice-rinks, and about 50 (native) registered players, in addition to ex-pat Canadians and Americans who help out.I was in Thailand recently. There's no way there's ice anywhere in that country... let alone people who could ice skate.
Amazingly 52-1 is not a record. The record for highest score in an international game is 58-0, when Australia dominated New Zealand in 1987.
Actually, the honor goes to a game at the 1998 Asian Oceanic Juniors tournament where South Korea took out Thailand 92-0.
are some of the kazakhs the same ones from the olympics? Is this type of torture really necessary? Highest score game I've ever been in was 11-1 and that was (a huge mismatch) in pee wees????
No, on top of Antropov and at that time Kolesnik, Kazakhstan's Olympic team also featured 15 RSL players. I guess RSL teams would not let their players participate in a midseason international tournament as this edition of team Kazakhstan consists entirely of players from Kazzink-Torpedo and Kazakhmys, which are both Kazakh teams that are in the the Russian Vishaya Liga (High League).