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PostFinance PostFinance is the financial services unit of Swiss Post which was founded in 1906. It is the fifth largest retail financial institution in Switzerland. Its main area of activity is in the national and international payments and a smaller but gr ...

Top Scorer is awarded annually to the Swiss

National League The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League (NL), is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, and the world's oldest extant professional team s ...

(NL) and

Swiss League The Swiss League is the second tier of the main professional ice hockey league in Switzerland, behind the National League. The winners of the league each season plays a best-of-seven series against the bottom team of the NL, and if they win, th ...

(SL) player who leads the league in points at the end of the regular season. The reigning Top Scorer from each team wears a yellow flame-emblazoned shirt and helmet in all playoff games. Once the qualifiers have taken place, the player with the most points in the league is then crowned the ''PostFinance Top Scorer'' of the NL or SL.

History

The award was introduced in the 2002–03 season.

's, the award's sponsor, aim is to provide the next generation of Swiss ice hockey players with direct, sustainable support. For each Top Scorer point, the youth section of the respective club receives CHF 200 (NL) and CHF 100 (SL). PostFinance also awards the same amount to the

Swiss Ice Hockey Federation The Swiss Ice Hockey Federation (SIHF) (german: Schweizerischer Eishockeyverband (SEHV), french: Ligue Suisse de Hockey sur Glace (LSHG), it, Federazione Svizzera di hockey su ghiaccio ) is the governing body of ice hockey in Switzerland, as reco ...

for its youth teams. The ''PostFinance Top Scorer'' bonus payments are earmarked and must be used exclusively to support and train junior players.

Winners

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References

External links

Information on nationalleague.ch

The Top Scorer ranking of the NL A and B

The purpose
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