Kazakhs show no mercy

Last updated at 14:59 29 January 2007


Kazakhstan beat Thailand 52-1 to wrap up their ruthless march through the group stage of the Asian Games ice hockey tournament on Monday.

Other top teams have taken it easy against the amateurs from warmer countries but the pre-tournament favourites scored 17 goals in the first period, 20 in the second and eased up only

slightly to score 15 in the last third of the game.

The scoring was spread fairly evenly through the team and Oleg Yeremeyev took the biggest haul with seven goals inside the first two periods as Kazakhstan added this rout to a 38-0 drubbing of the UAE.

Pongsak Phiewklam and Jason Cotsmire, who shared goaltending duties for the Thais, also stopped 39 shots between them and Thailand at least prevented the shut-out when Arthit Thamwongsin

hit the target after 47.15.

Kazakhstan go through to the next round as comfortable winners of Group B, having scored 90 goals to just the one against.

The highest score in an NHL game was when the Montreal Canadiens defeated the Quebec Bulldogs 16-3 in 1920.

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