The Kalevi Numminen trophy is an ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 award given by the Finnish

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 SM-liiga

SM-liiga

The SM-liiga is the top professional ice hockey league in Finland. As of March 2008, it is ranked by the IIHF as the second strongest league in Europe. It was created in 1975 to replace the SM-sarja, which was fundamentally an amateur league. The SM-liiga is not directly overseen by the Finnish Ice...

 to the best coach of the season. In 2008 it was awarded to Petri Matikainen

Petri Matikainen

Petri Matikainen is a former Finnish ice hockey player and current coach.Originally playing for SaPKo, he moved to play two seasons of junior hockey in Oshawa Generals. He was part of the team that won J. Ross Robertson Cup in 1987. In the same year, he also won IIHF World U20 Championship with...

 of Blues

Espoo Blues

The Blues are an ice hockey team in the SM-liiga. They play in Espoo, Finland at the Barona Areena.-Team history:The club was established in February 1984 as Kiekko-Espoo and played their first season in 1984-1985 in the Finnish Second Division...

.

Trophy Winners:

1977-78: Kari Mäkinen

Kari Mäkinen

Kari Mäkinen is the archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. On 11 March 2010 he was elected the 14th Archbishop of Turku and Finland, and he succeeded Jukka Paarma in that position on 6 June 2010...

 (Ässät

Ässät

Ässät is an ice hockey team in the Finnish elite league, SM-liiga. They play in Pori, Finland at the Porin jäähalli.-Team history:...

)

1978-79: Veli-Pekka Roiha (Reipas Lahti)

1979-80: Jorma Rikala (HIFK

HIFK (ice hockey)

HIFK is an ice hockey team based in Helsinki, Finland. The team plays at Helsinki Ice Hall. It was founded in 1897...

)

1980-81: Kari Mäkinen (Kärpät

Kärpät

Oulun Kärpät is an ice hockey team in the SM-liiga based in Oulu, Finland. Their logo features a stoat ; "kärpät" is Finnish for stoats or ermines. The team has won five league championships .-History:...

)

1981-82: Rauno Korpi

Rauno Korpi

Rauno "Rane" Korpi is a Finnish ice hockey coach. He coached Tappara to three consecutive Finnish Championships in SM-liiga during the years 1986-1988. He has also won one additional Finnish Championship Gold, one Silver medal and one Bronze medal. Korpi has been chosen three times as The Coach of...

 (Tappara

Tappara

Tappara is an ice hockey team in the SM-liiga. They play in Tampere, Finland at Tampereen jäähalli. The team have won 15 league championships ....

)

1982-83: Reino Ruotsalainen (Jokerit

Jokerit

Jokerit is an ice-hockey team from Helsinki, Finland, playing in the Finnish Elite League, SM-liiga. The team has won 6 league championships...

)

1983-84: Pentti Matikainen

Pentti Matikainen

Pentti Matikainen is a Finnish hockey coach and general manager. He was selected the SM-liiga coach of the year in 1984. As the coach of the Finnish national ice hockey team, he led Finland to silver medals in the 1988 Winter Olympics and the 1992 World Championships, and to third place in the...

 (Kärpät)

1984-85: Seppo Hiitelä (Ilves

Ilves

Ilves is a Finnish sports club nowadays mostly known for their youth work. The ice hockey team plays in the SM-liiga at the Tampereen jäähalli in Hakametsä...

)

1985-86: Rauno Korpi (Tappara)

1986-87: Rauno Korpi (Tappara)

1987-88: Pentti Matikainen (HIFK)

1988-89: Hannu Aravirta

Hannu Aravirta

Hannu Aravirta is a Finnish ice hockey player and an ice hockey coach for the Finnish national men's team, SM-liiga and Elitserien.-Career as player:...

 (JYP)

1989-90: Hannu Jortikka

Hannu Jortikka

Hannu Jortikka is a former Finnish ice hockey player and current coach.Jortikka spent most of his playing career in TPS. He was a part of the championship-winning TPS team in 1976. He had to retire in 1983 due to injury....

 (TPS

TPS (ice hockey)

TPS or Turun Palloseura is an ice hockey team and 11-time champion of SM-liiga. They play in Turku, Finland at the HK Arena. In terms of championships, TPS is the most successful team in SM-liiga history.-Team history:...

)

1990-91: Hannu Jortikka (TPS)

1991-92: Harri Rindell (HIFK)

1992-93: Vladimir Jursinov (TPS)

1993-94: Vladimir Jursinov (TPS)

1994-95: Vladimir Jursinov (TPS)

1995-96: Sakari Pietilä (HPK

HPK

HPK is an ice hockey team in the SM-liiga. They play in Hämeenlinna, Finland at the Hämeenlinnan jäähalli. HPK was established in 1929. The full name of the club is HPK-Edustusjääkiekko Ry and the team is sometimes promoted as the "Hockey Playing Knights", with the logo representing a knight...

)

1996-97: Hannu Kapanen

Hannu Kapanen

Hannu Kapanen is a retired professional ice hockey player who played in the SM-liiga. He played for Jokerit and HIFK...

 (HPK)

1997-98: Erkka Westerlund

Erkka Westerlund

Erkka Westerlund was the head coach of the Finnish national men's ice hockey team. He was appointed head coach on November 1, 2004, and his contract ended in May 2007, after winning World Championship Silver in Moscow's World Championship tournament...

 (HIFK)

1998-99: Hannu Jortikka (TPS)

1999-00: Hannu Jortikka (TPS)

2000-01: Hannu Jortikka (TPS)

2001-02: Raimo Summanen

Raimo Summanen

Raimo Olavi Summanen , is a former professional ice hockey forward and also a former coach of the Finnish national team. He was selected by the Edmonton Oilers in the sixth round of the 1982 NHL Entry Draft, 125th overall, and spent his NHL career with Edmonton and the Vancouver Canucks...

 (Jokerit)

2002-03: Jukka Rautakorpi (Tappara)

2003-04: Kari Heikkilä

Kari Heikkilä

Kari Heikkilä is a former Finnish ice hockey player and current coach.He played majority of his career in Ilves, but had also stints in Sweden and in Italy, where he ended his career in 1994....

 (Kärpät)

2004-05: Kari Jalonen

Kari Jalonen

Kari Jalonen is a former professional ice hockey center. He played parts of two seasons at the NHL level, with the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers, but is best known for his time in SM-liiga and with the Finnish national team.Jalonen represented Finland internationally on nine occasions,...

 (Kärpät)

2005-06: Jukka Jalonen

Jukka Jalonen

Jukka Jalonen is a Finnish professional ice hockey coach and former player. He is the current head coach of Finnish national men's ice hockey team....

 (HPK)

2006-07: Kari Jalonen (Kärpät)

2007-08: Petri Matikainen

Petri Matikainen

Petri Matikainen is a former Finnish ice hockey player and current coach.Originally playing for SaPKo, he moved to play two seasons of junior hockey in Oshawa Generals. He was part of the team that won J. Ross Robertson Cup in 1987. In the same year, he also won IIHF World U20 Championship with...

 (Blues

Espoo Blues

The Blues are an ice hockey team in the SM-liiga. They play in Espoo, Finland at the Barona Areena.-Team history:The club was established in February 1984 as Kiekko-Espoo and played their first season in 1984-1985 in the Finnish Second Division...

)

2008-09: Risto Dufva (JYP)

2009-10: Kai Suikkanen

Kai Suikkanen

Kai Suikkanen is a retired Finnish professional ice hockey left wing. He played in two games in the National Hockey League with the Buffalo Sabres, and spent most of his career in Finland's SM-liiga with Kärpät and TPS Turku. Currently, he works as the head coach of Pelicans Lahti in the SM-liiga...

(TPS)

2010-11: Petri Matikainen (Blues)