Torriani Award

The Torriani Award is given annually by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) to an ice hockey player with an "outstanding career from non-top hockey nation". It was inaugurated in 2015, and is awarded alongside the annual IIHF Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the Ice Hockey World Championships. It is named for Bibi Torriani, who played internationally for the Switzerland men's national ice hockey team.[1][2]

When the award was first announced, IIHF president René Fasel was quoted as saying; "we wanted to create a trophy which honours players for a great international career irrespective of where they played. Nowadays, with NHL players and international players often being the same, we feel that there are so many top players to honour. Still, we wanted to ensure we recognized players who didn’t necessarily win Olympic and World Championship medals but who still had remarkable careers. As a result, we created the Torriani Award, and Lucio Topatigh is a very worthy first recipient".[1]

Recipients
NameCountryYear
Lucio Topatigh  Italy 2015[1]
Gábor Ocskay  Hungary 2016[3]
Tony Hand  Great Britain 2017[4]
Jesper Damgaard  Denmark 2018[5]
Konstantin Mihailov  Bulgaria 2019[2]
Ron Berteling  Netherlands 2020[6]

See also

References
  1. "Hall of Fame Class of 2015". IIHF. 2015. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  2. Podnieks, Andrew (6 February 2019). "Hall of Fame Class of 2019 named". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  3. Clinton, Jared (18 December 2015). "Fedorov, Bondra, Quinn headline 2016 IIHF Hall of Fame class". The Hockey News. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  4. Podnieks, Andrew (25 April 2017). "A league of their own: IIHF Hall of Fame names 20th induction class". IIHF. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  5. "Blake, Chelios, Alfredsson, Lehtinen elected to IIHF Hall of Fame". NHL.com. 1 December 2017. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  6. Podnieks, Andrew (4 February 2020). "Legends join IIHF Hall of Fame". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
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