Returning from a long weekend trip to Montreal to compete at the Montreal Floorball Open 2007, my teammates and I feel our body aching, but our mind full of energy and enthusiasm.

Because of our early arrival in Montreal, the Vancouverites spent the whole Friday visiting the city and adapting to the different climate. After getting to know our teammates from Toronto and some team meetings for discussing our play strategies, we all were ready to go into the first game on Saturday morning.

Caused by the small sized field played on our first day, all the games were very intense and physical, therefore we couldn’t use our speed advantage as we initially had planned. And yet we won two of three games and ended up as 2nd in practising our strategies, playing clever and being disciplined.

After these games, we spent the evening Downtown and discovered Montreal’s nightlife. On Sunday, we could despite of having spent a short night and being hung over get up early and win the quarterfinal at 8.30 in the morning. Then we moved to the second venue and played the rest of our games on a normal-sized 120 by 60 feet field. Of course, we could take advantage of our running skills and won the next game. Unfortunately, our energy ran out and we broke down during the final. Finally, we were rewarded with the silver medals and attended the tournament banquette at a restaurant-bar in Old Montreal.

We all spent a great weekend in Eastern Canada playing floorball combined with sightseeing and nightlife in Montreal. It was fantastic to get to know wicked Floorball players from countries all over the world auch as Canada, Sweden, Finland, Poland and Switzerland and to learn more about the Canadian Floorball movement. I, personally, enjoyed this trip and would love to repeat it next year.

A collection of Floorball Players from Vancouver and Toronto came together to form the National Floorball Club(NFC) for last weekends Montreal Open.  Team NFC met Team Red Phoenix, from Montreal, in the Finals.  An extremely talented group of Ball Hockey Players, who have played together for 8 years and competed on the National Level and won, Red Phoenix were definitely the class of the elite division at this years Montreal Open.  In the end, after an incredible run of wins…Team NFC kept it close for 2 periods in the final game. It was an amazing feat for Team NFC to advance to the finals, thanks to leadership from Fahad Saddiqui, Blair Zimmerman and Arek Piszczek.  BC Floorballers that made the trek to Montreal were: Shea Esselmont, Greg Beaudin, Blair Zimmerman and Swiss Players, Dominik Hunziker, Simon Baumgartner, Ronny Dossenbach, and Team MVP- goalkeeper Chris Mohn.

Canadian Unihockey and Floorball Federation elects a new board of directors

:::reposted from the floorballquebec.ca website:::

During
the Montreal Open, CUFF (Canadian Unihockey and Floorball Federation)
held a founding meeting to elect for the first time a board of
directors with representation from each active Canadian provinces.
The new board look as follows:

President - Randy Sa’d
Secretary General - Eero Piilokivi
Board member - James Stasiewich (rep for Alberta)
Board member - Paul Charbonneau (rep for Ontario)
Board member - Pasi Nurminen (rep for Quebec)
Board member - Greg Beaudin (rep for British Columbia)

Thank you to everybody who participated at the meeting.

To Modern Hockey Floorball Leaguers,

Last night marked our 6th week of League Play.  The competition remains fierce and the play gets tighter and quicker.  Halloween night attendance was strong and the results of the nights 2 games were as follows:
Team Salming beat Team Blast 11-8, while Team Xtreme maintained their perfect record, winning in overtime, over Team Precision.

to view stats, click here

To come and watch, league play happens every Wednesday night, in West Vancouver at Mulgrave School Gym from 8pm-10pm.

If you would like to try Floorball, we have two adult drop-in sessions at $7/session:

1. Monday Night Floorball at the Roundhouse- 6-7:45
2. Thursday Night Floorball at Mulgrave- 8-10

we also have Youth Floorball, downtown at the Roundhouse, on Saturdays, at 1pm.

thank-you! from Modern Hockey and the BCFF.