Monday, May 9, 2005

Game tape: needed

So, Armenia's national hockey team didn't exactly make the best showing at the recent third tier int'l championships held in Mexico City. Don't take my word for it. Here's the Armenian press account:

Resounding defeats: Division 3 World Championships ended in Mexico City where Armenia’s national team played against Ireland, Mexico, Luxemburg and South Africa.

Armenia lost all their four matches conceding a total of 131 goals and scoring only 7. They lost 1-33 to South Africa, 3-20 to Ireland, 3-38 to Luxemburg and 0-40 to Mexico.

President of the Ice Hockey Federation of Armenia Karen Khachatryan told ArmeniaNow that the team had a disgraceful tournament in Mexico and added that serious changes are needed to develop this sport in Armenia.


The article actually understates the margin of defeat in the Mexico game. It was 48-0, as shown in this game summary. This result beats anything I was able to accomplish on Sega's NHL '95 with the uncontested wrap-around maneuver. You can see that the momentum conclusively turned Mexico's direction when Armenia's Tatul Jamalyan, no doubt frustrated by his team's 31-goal deficit, took his second 10 minute major penalty and received a mandatory game misconduct. It was all but over at that point.

But I suppose there's no shame in losing by thirty-five goals to the vaunted Luxemburg Flying X-Wing Offense. Still, I'm looking for confirmation that the Armenians were equipped with unbroken hockey sticks.

So anyway, before I start trolling ebay with search terms like "Armenia-Mexico hockey," does anyone have a game tape of this contest of wills?

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