Montreal Floorball League awards gala was held at Brutopia on Friday May 4th, 2102. Thank you to all the players who attended and congratulations to all the winners!

Regular season top scorer: Simon Leblanc, Red Zone FC
Regular season goalie with best GAA: Jukka Hinttala, Team Finland
Fair play award (team with least penalty minutes): Outcast IBC

Most valuable player: Simon Leblanc, Red Zone FC
Best goalie: Jukka Hinttala, Team Finland
Best defense-man: Simon Leblanc, Red Zone FC
Best forward: Okko Niskanen, Team Finland
Best rookie: Okko Niskanen, Team Finland

The Men's National Team Staff is proud to select the following players to represent Team Canada at the World Floorball Championships Qualifier in Los Angeles, California this upcoming February. We would like to congratulate these young men, and say Thank-You to all those who attended tryouts across Canada. This is an exciting era for Floorball Canada as we are starting a 7 year plan to be a Floorball powerhouse by the time of the World Floorball Championships in 2018, The Journey starts here...

Andrew Radjenovic, Ontario
Angus Burke, British Columbia
Blair Leslie, Ontario

All Eastern Canadian players interested in trying out for the Men's National Team are encouraged to carefully read the following note and follow up immediately.

Saturday 12 Novembre, 2011

All Games are 2x20min

1: 9.00 Swiss Knives vs Ottawa Blizzard 1 4-10 (2-3) F.Hennet 2, S.Laporte, B.Holmes - E.Savard 2, R.Sa'D 2, M.Smith 2, S.Ahee, B.Muir, M.Hanley, Own goal
Penalties: SWI 4min, OTT 2min
Saves/shots: J.Cadigal, SWI 6/16; M.Anderson, OTT 18/22

2: 9.50 Franco IBK vs Ottawa Blizzard 2 7-1 (6-1) P.Hujanen 2, JT.Briere, MA.Gosselin, O.Niskanen, M.Jeffrey, FX.Charlebois - M.Hubmann
Penalties: FRA 2min, OTT 0min
Saves/shots: M.Hayward, FRA 17/18; JR.Goulet, OTT 20/27

As a follow-up to the interview with Kalle Brännberg, here an interview with David Jansson, Team Canada head coach.

FQ: What is your background in floorball? Do you or did you play floorball?

The new head coach for Team Canada was announced as David Jansson who is currently coaching Pixbo Wallenstam IBK in the Swedish Elite League, I decided to ask someone playing for Pixbo about the new head coach.
Kalle Brännberg, forward with Pixbo Wallenstam IBK:

EP: For how long have you had David Jansson as coach?
KB: He became the head coach for Pixbo Wallenstam IBK this season but he was also my coach/teacher at the floorball gymnasium (high-school) in Mölnlycke, Sweden. He has developed a lot since the time in high-school.

EP: What is his coaching style?

Dear Floorball Partcipants and Friends,
Bienvenue à Quebec! Welcome to Quebec!

The 6th edition of Montreal Open to will take place on November 12-13, 2011.
The Montreal Open will be played in Externat Sacre-Couer, Rosemere.

Divisions: Elite and Intermediate.
Maximum of 8 teams per division on first come - first served basis.

Registration fees: Elite 500$ and Intermediate 400$.

Pre-registration deadline: October 16th, 2011.
Registration deadline: October 26th, 2011.
Teams registering after October 16th will be charged an additional 50$ fee.

Montreal Floorball League (MFL) will start the first week of October. There will be open scrimmages on Thursday September 22nd and 29th.

The MFL will take place on Tuesday and Thursday nights, first week of October to last week of April, 8pm to 11pm at the Cegep St-Laurent.

The four Intermediate teams from last season; Finecast, Innebandits, Team Finland and the defending champs El Fuego; and two additional teams, Red Bulls Floorball and one yet to be named team. The spirit is to make the league balanced so there will be a limit to how many "A-Grade" players can be on each team.

The International Olympic Committee has during its 123rd session on the 8th of July in Durban, South Africa rewarded IFF and Floorball with the full IOC recognition, based on the recommendation of the IOC Executive Board.
More here:
http://www.floorball.org/news.asp?id_tiedote=2096

Feel free to join some floorball action this summer starting Tuesday next week:
Open for anyone who wants to try out floorball or those who already have played.

When: Every Tuesday 7pm-9pm, starting on June 21st until July 12.

Where: College Bois de Boulogne, double gym on second floor.
Address: 10555, avenue de Bois-de-Boulogne, Montreal (Quebec) H4N 1L4

More info on www.scanadianfloorball.com/summerleague.htm