The Raimo Kilpiö trophy is an

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice h ...

trophy awarded by the

Finnish Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also ...

Liiga The SM-liiga (marketed as just Liiga from 2013 on), (Finnish for ''League'') colloquially called the Finnish Elite League in English or FM-ligan in Swedish, is the top professional ice hockey league in Finland. It is one of the six founding lea ...

to the player who has shown the most sportsmanship and good behaviour as well as high quality performance for their team. It is named after

Raimo Kilpiö Raimo Olavi Kilpiö (born 2 February 1936 in Parikkala, Finland) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played 459 games in the SM-liiga and its predecessor SM-sarja from 1953 to 1977. During his career he scored 261 goals and 492 poi ...

who played in the top level of Finnish ice hockey for 21 years in 1953-77. In 2019 it was awarded to Kristian Kuusela of

Tappara Tappara (; Finnish for "Battle axe") is a Finnish professional ice hockey team playing in the Liiga. They play at ''Tampere Deck Arena'' in Tampere, Finland. The team has won 18 Finnish league championships (1959, 1961, 1964, 1975, 1977, 1979, ...

Trophy winners

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