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The game was between Moosemen and Blacks FC, it was the last fixture of the night. Moosemen, who were already 3^rd on the Singapore Floorball League table desperately needed to beat Blacks FC by as many goals as possible, in order for them to stand a chance of defending their SFL title. Blacks FC, on the hand had only pride to play for as they had yet to get a win throughout the whole league and were already relegated prior to the match against the mighty Moosemen.

We needed to score more than 25 goals against Blacks FC in order to match the huge goal difference between ZARF and Skools Innebandy. The belief of scoring 25 goals against them increased when we saw a depleted bench of Blacks FC with only 7 players present for the match (this was including their goalie). We on the other hand had a full squad and the Blacks were surely staring defeat even before the game began.

Within the first 30 seconds, the first goal was scored. Blacks FC tried defending to minimize the deficit; however, the goals just keep flowing. Even before the first half ended, both Filip and Timothy had gotten themselves hat-tricks respectively. The period ended with Moosemen leading by 10 goals to nothing.

Our coach was pretty satisfied with our team’s play and tempo of the game and urged the players to continue doing what they were doing. The second period started off with more “ONE WAY TRAFFIC” play. It was indeed brutal, but there was nothing we could do as we needed to get ourselves back in contention for the SFL title. I really did feel for the Blacks replacement goalie.

The Blacks finally realized they had nothing to lose and with 10 minutes left on the clock, they switched to a counter attack strategy and managed to catch Moosemen off guard. By doing so they managed to put away 2 goals past me. (Honestly, both the goals were pretty crappy goals to concede) The final score 35-2, one of the biggest margins ever in the history of the Singapore Floorball League. The score line was so great that the score board ran out of numbers and had to start all over again.

Everyone predicted a trashing, but no one believed that it would be one of this magnitude. Full credit must be given to Blacks FC players as they fought hard to minimize the score line, but it just wasn’t their night as Moosemen was at their best attacking form that night.

By Kao Lin Ken