“Oh captain, my captain, right?” said Panthers center Anton Lundell, who is one of four Panthers players on Team Finland ...

“This means the world to me,” Barkov said. “It’s the Athlete of the Year in Finland, the country where I was born and raised. I grew up watching the national teams play, cheering for them.

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.

Aleksander Barkov was taken aback by the news. The Florida Panthers’ captain has had numerous milestones, accomplishments and honors over the course of his 12-season NHL career — most notably ...

After becoming the first Finnish-born player to captain a Stanley Cup champion, Aleksander Barkov was named captain of Team ...

Above all, I am grateful that I was able to put him in those early years on this glorious path to becoming one of the best hockey players in the world," said Mäkinen. In 2023, basketball player Lauri ...

But the latest honor he received hit a new high. Barkov on Thursday was named Finland’s Athlete of the Year at the Finnish Sports Gala in Helsinki. He’s the first hockey player to be bestowed ...