Feb 182010  One thing Canada’s always been on the fortunate side
of has been the blow out games. After the womens team beat
Slovakia 18-0, the debate on whether or not there should be a
mercy rule was brought up again. We watch the womens team
dominate most countries except the US, we spent our Christmas
and New Years watching the Canadian World Junior team slaughter
teams, and even in the mens opener against Norway, Canada
stomped them 8-0. So that raises the question, do we need a
mercy rule?  What is winning a game by 18 goals doing? I for
one, am a proponent that no matter what the score, if you’re up
by one goal or up by six goals you shouldn’t let up the offense.
I’m all for running up the score in an NHL game because in NHL
games there are different things at stake. It’s not a regular
occurence in the NHL and it’s welcome and exciting when it
happens. But when you watch the Canadian juniors romp 16-0 over
the Latvians, or the Canadian women put up 18 over the Slovaks
there’s little exciting about that.