By bcfloorball on May 23, 2007 - 11:56am
This Saturday at Mulgrave School, the BC Floorball Federation is hosting the 1st Annual BCFF Floorball Challenge. This is a one day Tournament of competitive 4 on 4 (+ goalies) Floorball. In addition to the competition itself there will be two demonstration games involved over 30 grade 4 -6 students from the school. In between these two games will be an Exhibition game between players from Canada and Switzerland (one of the top Floorball nations in the world.)
Vancouver's own Blair Zimmerman was recently MVP at the biggest Floorball Tournament in North America, The Canada Cup in Toronto at Easter. Blair will captain a side of local Canadian players and members of the Vancover WaveRiders club team that won Silver in Toronto.
Matching up against Blair will be another Zimmerman! That is Adrian Zimmerman. Adrian is part of Team Switzerland and is a Floorball Superstar at age 23! He was the top scorer in the 2006 World Floorball Championships in Sweden. The BC Floorball Federation is thrilled to have him participate on Saturday and whole day should be a fantastic advert for the sport.
By bcfloorball on April 6, 2007 - 6:03pm
Live, as I type, the historic first Floorball match on North American soil of Team Canada and Team USA, both ranked in the top 25 countries in the world.
At the end of the first period in Toronto, Team Canada led 3 - 1 with two goals from Vancouver WaveRiders Blair Zimmerman and Greg Rozitis.
As I write it's half way through the second period and Team Canada now lead 7 - 2 !!!
Check out BCFloorball.com for more updates !!!!
UPDATE: Canada went on to win the game 12-2!! See the report here.
By bcfloorball on April 6, 2007 - 5:59pm
The sport of Floorball is starting to take off in Vancouver. A team from the city, the Vancouver WaveRiders are in Toronto this weekend to compete in the Canada Cup - a four year old tournament with over 30 teams.
Today was the round robin part of the tournament and the WaveRiders won 2 of their 3 games to go qualify for tomorrow's quarter finals in the intermediate division. They were helped along today by a hatrick from BC Floorball Federation President Greg Beaudin and a first career shut out by WaveRiders goalie Scott Douglas in the third and key game.
Check out BCFloorball.com for lots more updates and info on Floorball, The Canada Cup and the historic friendlies between Team Canada and Team USA taking place as I write!
