The Finnish Sports Journalists’ Association has voted Aleksander Barkov the best Finnish athlete of 2024. Incredibly, he is the first hockey player to ever receive the honor, which has been ...

Aleksander Barkov has been selected as the 2024 Sports Personality of the Year, becoming the first ice hockey player to do so. In June last year, Barkov made history as the first Finnish captain to ...

SUNRISE, Fla. --Florida Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov became the first hockey player to ever win Finland's Athlete of the Year in a vote by the Finnish Association of Sports Journalists.

Later this week, he has a chance to be named Finnish athlete of the year ... By being voted best hockey player, Barkov joins the winners of 83 other sports – from popular sports like football ...