. It resembles floor hockey or ball hockey but is played with light-weight plastic composite sticks and rules that promote safety and skill.
, community centres or for hockey teams as off-ice training. It can be played co-ed up to the highest levels of play. Learn more about
May 6th, 2009
Floorball Canada will be holding an open tryout for the Women’s National Team on May 18th from 11am-3pm at the Tait MacKenzie Centre at York University. Click
here for directions.
The organizers of the Canada Cup Floorball Championships have gratiously made the gym space and equipment available at no cost, but have requested assistance from each of the tryout attendees to help with the take down efforts after the tryout.
The tryout is open to women who are Canadian citizens and will be at least 16 years old by December 31st, 2009. This tryout is open to women from across Canada who are interested in being considered for the National Team that will be competing at the Women’s World Floorball Championships “B” Division from December 5th-12th, 2009 in Vasteras, Sweden.
The tryout includes a shooting school session with World-famous Floorball shooting guru Patrik Lönell at 11am. For more details on the shooting school, please visit http://salmingacademy.eventbrite.com . The cost for the shooting school portion of the tryout is $10 per person. We strongly recommend that all field players attend this unique opportunity to learn from one of the top Floorball instructors in the world.
Official registration and selection criteria details will be provided at this tryout and will be made available on the Floorball Canada website following the tryout. Depending on the interest levels, individual Provincial tryouts will be organized by the Provincial Federations. For more details about dates and times for the Provincial tryouts, please contact your Federation. All players selected to the National Team must be registered members of their Provincial Federation and are expected to cover their costs of attending the World Championships.
We hope see as many of the Canadian Team hopefuls as possible there.
For more details, please contact:
Paul Charbonneau
Chair, National Teams Committee
Floorball Canada
647-588-80008
Posted in Adult Floorball, Canada Cup, Floorball Canada, General, International Floorball, Women's National Team
March 25th, 2009
Canadian National Floorball Championships April 17-19, 2009 at the Richmond Olympic Oval in Richmond, BC
Ontario will be sending it’s best Men’s team ever to face BC, Alberta and Quebec and hope to bring home the title after a dissapointing 3rd place finish last year. Our Women’s team are looking to defend their title from 2yrs ago as they face Quebec and BC. Here are the rosters for Team Ontario.
Men’s Team
Name Position Residence
Henry Korhonen Defence Mississauga
Juha Mikkola Defence Toronto
Simo Karvinen Defence Toronto
Scott Wilson Defence Toronto
Eric Kloosterman Forward Toronto
Randy Sa’d Forward Toronto
Eddie Beattie Forward Hamilton
Musa Hanley Forward Toronto
Vesa Mikkola Forward Toronto
Paw Hickman Forward Ottawa
Dave Toupin Forward Ottawa
Kris Ruckermann Forward Ottawa
Jesse Farb Forward Toronto
Nicholas Cifelli Goalie Toronto
Tero Kontinen Goalie Toronto
Pascal Meier Head Coach Ottawa
Women’s Team
Trish Lewis Defence Sudbury
Sonja Bissegger Defence Waterloo
Johanna Kytola Defence Toronto
Erin Wilkes Forward Toronto
Mara Chaplin Forward Toronto
Eileen Lam Forward Toronto
Sonja Hotke Forward Toronto
Tiffany Talbot Forward Ottawa
Jennifer Lynch Goalie Hamilton
Paul Charbonneau Head Coach Toronto
Posted in Adult Floorball, Floorball Canada, National Championships
March 10th, 2009
The Canada Cup is North America´s biggest floorball tournament. It takes place in Toronto from Friday 15th May to Sunday 17th May 2009. Last year the tournament gathered 39 teams and 600 players from all around the world. This year the organizer is expecting 50 teams to participate in the Canada Cup 2009.
The clubs can register for the following divisions:
- Adult Elite (10 teams, played on 15th - 17th May) for European and competitive North American teams
- Adult Intermediate (14 teams, 16th - 17th May) for semi-competitive teams
- Adult Recreational (6 teams, 16th May) for teams new to competitive floorball
- Adult Ladies (6 teams, 17th May) for women´s teams of all levels
- High School (10 teams, 15th May) for high school teams
- Bantam (6 teams, 17th May) for players born 1994 - 1995
- Atom & Peewee (8 teams, 16th May) for players born 1996 - 1999
Canada Cup 2009 online registration system
For more information: www.thecanadacup.com
or contact The Canada Cup Organizing Committee Mr. Juha Mikkola
Posted in Adult Floorball, Canada Cup, General, Schools/Youth Programs
March 3rd, 2009
April 16th: Richmond Olympic Oval
Workshop: IFF intro + Develop Floorball + Coaching (start playing - training - tactics) + game analysis
April 17th: The Roundhouse Community Center
Workshop: IFF intro + Recruiting persons + Referees + Coaching (roles - defensive tactics - offensive tactics - drills) + game analysis
IFF launched the Development program in 2006 in order to support and develop the organisation and the activities of the member associations.
| The Development Program Seminar is built on three different blocks, one for Organisation, one for Coaching and one for Refereeing all aiming to give additional knowledge in these fields to the associations and assist them in planning and managing the development in their respective country. The seminar is an event consisting of theoretical lectures, practical training sessions, group works and hand-on training and observation. |
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The 2 Day Workshop will contain content specifically designed for those who can attend both days.
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Posted in Floorball Canada, IFF Development Seminar, National Championships
March 3rd, 2009
| Floorball Canada has confirmed that they will host an exhibition match against the Indian National Floorball Team in April.On April 17th, at the Richmond Olympic Oval in Richmond, British Columbia Canada, India’s Men’s National Team will play in a match against the Canadian Men’s National Team. |
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Canada’s team will be selected from among returning players to the National Team program, as well as some up and coming players who will be competing for positions for next year’s National Team.
The match will be held alongside the Canadian National Floorball Championships from April 17th-19th, which will consist of 4 Provincial Men’s teams from British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec, and 3 Women’s teams from British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec.
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Team Canada was placed 3rd in the WFC C-division 2008 |
The Indian National Team will also play practice games against each of the Provincial Men’s Team entries competing at the National Championships.
For more information on the India vs. Canada exhibition match, please contact:
Paul Charbonneau
Chair, National Teams Committee
Floorball Canada
Email: paul@floorballcanada.ca
Tel: +1 647.588.8008
For more information about the Canadian National Championships, please contact:
Blair Zimmerman
National Championships Committee
BC Floorball Federation
Email: blair.zimmerman@bcfloorball.com
Posted in Adult Floorball, Floorball Canada, General, International Floorball, Men's National Team, National Championships
February 20th, 2009
Once again, thanks to the OFSAA Try-Day program, another school has embraced Floorball. Read the following article from the Lindsay Post. http://www.thepost.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1441497
The OFUF also recently introduced Floorball to the other 2 High Schools in the Lindsay area - IE Weldon and Lindsay CVI. It appears that there is a new hub for Floorball in Ontario. We look forward to hearing more news from the intramurals and possibly some inter-school matches.
Posted in Media Coverage, Schools/Youth Programs
February 18th, 2009
The organizers of the 2009 Men’s World U19 Floorball Championships have opened up the official website for the Championships.
Schedules, Results and ticket information can be found on the site.
Posted in Floorball Canada, International Floorball, Men's National Team
February 12th, 2009
This past October, the Floorball Ontario traveled up to Sault Ste Marie to St. Mary’s College for one of the Salming Road Show floorball clinics. After spending the day introducing floorball to the Phys Ed classes at the school, it seems to have caught on quite nicely as evidenced from this recent article in the Sault Ste Marie News.
http://www.soonews.ca/viewarticle.php?id=21139
Congrats to “The Gongshow” for their victory and we look forward to hearing more from these up and coming players.
Posted in General, Media Coverage, Schools/Youth Programs
January 17th, 2009
The Ontario Floorball/Unihockey has set a date for the Annual General Meeting for 2008.
Date: Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Time: 7:00pm
Location:
Osuuspankki Finnish Credit Union (map)
191 Eglinton Ave. E.
Toronto, ON
M4P 1K1
Conference Call #: TBA
For more information on positions to be elected and to get involved, please contact Randy Sa’d, President at randy.sad@floorballontario.com .
Posted in Board Minutes, General
