JANI KUKOLA is coming to town!!

Floorball Clinic
12:30-5:00pm
Dalat Indoor Gym
Saturday, 31st May

Hi everyone......wow......it's been a while since I've been on to update stuff. My apologies to all you readers out there.

Some great news, this weekend for just a few hours in Penang, we will be having Jani Kukola from Finland with us. This is really exciting!!!

Dalat has been given the great opportunity of hosting him, he’ll only be here for just a few hours and we’d like to try to make the most of it. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to meet someone of this caliber here in this region.

We will be holding a clinic from 1-5pm in the Dalat gym. He’ll be teaching team dynamics and skills for beginners and those who’ve been playing for a while already.

We are charging RM50 per person for entrance...... this is to cover his flight from Singapore for the day. Registration will be open right up till the time the clinic begins.

We hope to see you there with us.

News From Singapore

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

Check This New Site!!!

Hey there everyone, I recently came across this article and have started working with the people in promoting floorball thru this great website. It's amazing what they're doing across the globe so to speak. If you click on the article title above it'll redirect you to the site mentioned or you can also go to our "Floorball Family" link below in the right hand column to be directed there.

If you think we had it bad here in Penang when we first started out on basketball courts that completely wrecked our blades think again. Click on the link and check out what the kids in Djibouti, Africa are doing.........this will amaze you and inspire you. (LinKen, the cover pic of the page looks like you when you first started training at my house in Taman Sri Nibong.............lol)

Projects are sprouting out eveywhere thru their persistence. I think the dream and realization of having floorball as an official olympic sport is coming sooner than we think.

Please check the site out and also tell your friends about it. If you have photos that you'd like to post and articles that you'd like to write please forward them to me at floorball@myfloorball.info

There will be a picture of a Malaysian posted to promote the site. A local floorball star from Penang, look out for that. I'll keep you updated as to when that will be posted.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Div. 2 Champs

Winners Circle

WINNERS
Division 1
1st - Contact Fire Ants
2nd - Innebandy!Co.

Division 2
1st - Dalat Eagles
2nd - Ztec 8cers

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Final Score
Unihawks vs. Spartans 5-3

Gordon Bombay is forced to withdraw from the minor hockey league with a knee injury. Much to his surprise, he is given the job of coach of Team USA Hockey for the Junior Goodwill Games in California. With most of the Ducks and a few new players in tow, he sets forth for LA. All appears to be going well for a while, but the hype of Hollywood starts to get to Gordon, and he is distracted when Iceland, the favourites to win the title end up in the finals, but of course the Ducks clinch the title in the end. MIGHTY DUCKS D2 - 1994

Tonight the same happened with the Hawks and Spartans. What looked like a sure and easy win for the Spartans (the supposedly stronger of the two teams) to take the Div 1 second spot from Inne turned out to be their massacre. The underdawgs came from behind to deny them of that spot. The Hawks came in to this final with one goal in mind.....and that was to win at least one game in this league. Their dedication and determination paid off tonight when they took the Spartans by surprise.

The Rise & Fall Of Great Powers

Final Score
Ztec vs. Trojans 11-0
Innebandy vs. Fireants 3-8

Tonight Ztec again went about their duty to seal their place as no. 2 in the division. Clinical as it was it also looked very comical as they obviously weren't playing at full tilt. Many mistakes that should've been converted into points. Having said that, the Trojans who only played with 6 people showed extreme courage, determination and endurance. Wave after wave the attacks came but they stood steadfast to the end and played with all their heart. To them I take my hat off for their valiant effort and true show of sportsmanship.

So by now you've also found out that if you had followed my predictions you'd have lost lots of money big time.

Tonight the Fireants rose to the challenge, and of course when there is a rise there is also a fall and fall hard they did, Inne. It wasn't meant to be their nite. Unforced error after unforced error, they just could do no right tonight. With mistakes flowing freely the inevitable had to follow. To them it was like a bad April Fool's joke gone really wrong.

The Fireants were out to prove dominance from the get go and within just 2 secs of the face off they scored and sent massive shock waves thru Inne's camp. Blow by blow they meticulously chipped away at Inne's armour and no amount of magic spells could've made the difference tonight. It was just meant to be the Fireants time to shine. For them the spell has been broken and the years of prospecting has not proved to be in vain. They've finally struck gold!! Shouts of jubilation rang thru the arena as the final whistle was blown (twice for that matter). For them they had just made history for themselves.

Inne's loss tonight to the Fireants has sparked a flame in the hearts of the Spartans who play their final game against the Hawks this Saturday. If they can win the game, they'll steal 2nd place from Inne. What a greater blow that would be for them.

To the newly crowned Champions of Div. 1, we congratulate you!! Well done, you've completed your race.

To the fallen......yes defeat sucks and hurts like hell, but so goes life......pick yourselves up off the dirt and dust yourselves off.....there's always next year to try again.

Next year we look forward to joining the ranks of the "elite" so to speak and hopefully give everyone a run for their money. Look out the Eagles are swooping in!!!!

What's Over The Horizon??

My match predictions:
Ztec vs. Trojans 10-1
Innebandy vs. Fireants 3-2 (this is only bec Deswyn is back, otherwise the tables will be turned in favour of Fireants)

So......tomorrow brings the exciting prospects of maybe seeing a brand new division champion. If the Fireants can get their act together they can put a significant dent into the now very frail armour of Inne and claim the trophy for themselves. Will they make history happen for themselves or will they hand it to prospecting favourites and defending champs Innebandy!Co.?

If Inne's last game was one to judge by the Fireants will have a lot to shout, scream and cheer about. The question posed is, are they willing to fight tooth and nail to claim what could be rightfully theirs or let it slip thru their fingers yet again. They must be having "gold fever" by now after years of trailing behind a number of clubs where they came within reach of a number of gold medals. This year yet again, here they are in the very position to clinch the title. All that stands between them and their title hopes, a mere 2 points that will put them in the lead and out of the reach of any other Div 1 team for the rest of the league duration. Can they hold out and defend what they know should be rightfully theirs?

As for Inne, it should be their trophy for the taking tomorrow, but they're really not quite out of the woods yet as they have to play their very best against a very extremely determined and cutthroat team that will stop at nothing short of blood. With all their troops home, rallied and ready to go, maybe they'll be ready. Can Sam, Deswyn, Nick, Ephraim and the Inne gang put some strange magic together and come up with some dynamic combos to pull the rug out from under the feet of the Fireants?? Only tomorrow will tell.

Way too difficult to predict. All the best to both teams.......and may the best team win.