On a summer Saturday, Dave heads to the BC Floorball's Challenge Tournament o learn whassup with fast-paced indoor hockey sport and watch the Swiss Selects soundly defeat the Canadian Waveriders in an exhibition besides the 5-nation cup tournament.
The 1st annual BC Floorball Federation Challenge this past Saturday was a major success! I was placed on Team Sweden, and despite claims of coincidence, I suspect conspiracy—I started participating in order to counter Swedish dominance with a surging Icelandic wave, and this is how they repay me?! Team Czech won the championship, which lasted all day at Mulgrave School in West Vancouver. Separate from the challenge, Swiss all-stars continued their dominance over the Canadian team in the middle of the day, and kids entertained the adults who deservedly rested after some pretty intense action. Each team had only one or two substitutes, making for some tired legs at the end of each game, but I scored twice and assisted once, so I'm pretty happy with how things turned out. Team Sweden lost twice, tied once, and won their final game.
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.
