What is Floorball?

Floorball is an indoor team sport played using sticks with a plastic blade where the aim is to put a light plastic ball into the opponent's goal, similar to indoor hockey but on sneakers, not on skates. There are five players plus a goalie in each team playing on an indoor rink slightly smaller (131 x 65ft) and similar in shape than a hockey rink. The game is less physical (no checking or slashing allowed) but faster and more technical than hockey. Game time is three times twenty minutes with unlimited substitutions. Floorball is most popular in Sweden, Finland and Switzerland, and is gaining a lot of momentum here in the USA and Canada. There are several North American tournaments each year: the East Coast Tournament in Raleigh (NC), the Canada Cup in Toronto (CAN), the Bay Cup in San Francisco (CA) and a few others.