Aaro Kivilinna Memorial Trophy

The Aaro Kivilinna Memorial Trophy is an award given every year since 1973 to the best ice hockey club overall in Finland by the Finnish SM-liiga. [ [http://www.azhockey.com/Aa.htm#Aaro%20Kivilinna%20Trophy A to Z Encyclopaedia of Ice Hockey - Aa ] ] The recipient is determined by the final standings of each club in the SM-liiga or Mestis as well as their teams in the three topmost junior leagues and the women's league. (Thus the winner is quite often another club than the SM-liiga champion of that year.)

Aaro Kivilinna was an ice hockey defenseman from Helsinki, Finland who also worked as a sports journalist and as the secretary and later vice-president of the Finnish Ice Hockey Association. He was killed in action in the Winter War in February 1940.

Winners of the Aaro Kivilinna Memorial Trophy

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