Karoliina Rantamäki Award

The Karoliina Rantamäki Award (Finnish: Karoliina Rantamäki -palkinto) is an ice hockey trophy awarded by the Finnish Ice Hockey Association to the playoff MVP of the Naisten Liiga, called the Naisten SM-sarja during 1982 to 2017. The Naisten SM-sarja Playoff MVP trophy was first awarded in the 1999–2000 season and the first recipient was forward Kati Kovalainen of the Espoo Blues Naiset.

The most Karoliina Rantamäki Awards won by a single player is three, a record rather appropriately held by HIFK Naiset captain Karoliina Rantamäki. Rantamäki was recognized as the Naisten SM-sarja Playoff MVP in 2001, 2005, and 2007, all while playing with the Espoo Blues Naiset. The Playoff MVP award was named after Rantamäki in the 2010–11 season.[1] Of the ten players with Naisten Liiga trophies named in their honor, she is the only player to hold the most wins of her eponymous award. Rantamäki also holds the record for most Marianne Ihalainen Awards won, with six, and most Tiia Reima Awards won, with eight.

The Karoliina Rantamäki Award correlates with post-retirement coaching positions more than any other Naisten Liiga award; of the seven retired players who won the award during their playing careers, five currently hold coaching positions: Maija Hassinen-Sullanmaa (2006), Sanna Lankosaari (2002), and Linda Välimäki Leppänen (2010, 2014) coach in the Naisten Liiga, Riikka Sallinen (2016) in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL), and Mira Jalosuo (2017) with the Professional Women's Hockey Players Association (PWHPA).