This is a tough call.
When you're in a regular season game, I don't think that running up the score makes that big (if any) of a difference to the final standings at the end of the year. I would discourage it.
But when you're at a tournament (shorter timeframe) GF and GA can make a huge difference where your team ends up. Is a 46GF in one game going to give you the edge you need? Probably not.
If the score was 47-1, there is likely not much the winning team could have done to avoid embarassing the other team. The skill level is obviously far superior so if they started passing the puck around it would have embarassed the losing team as much, if not more than running up the score.
As a player, I always preferred the other team continue what they were doing to get them that far ahead than starting to "play" with the puck. As soon as they started doing that I always felt I was the "pig in the middle".
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