On Friday night, the Finnish Liiga held a ceremony to hand out several of its awards for the 2023-24 season. Friday’s big winners were Rikard Grönborg for coach of the year, Christian Heljanko for best goaltender, Canadian Charles-Édouard D'Astous for best defenseman, Veli-Matti Vittasmäki for most gentlemanly player, and Viljami Marjala for rookie of the year. The league’s all-star team was also announced. Where applicable, voting is shown.

Prior to Friday’s ceremony, several other major awards had already been decided. Among those were Jerry Turkulainen of JYP as MVP of the regular season and Heljanko as playoff MVP. Oula Palve of Ilves won the Veli-Pekka Ketola Award for winning the league’s scoring title with 64 points in 60 games.

Kalevi Numminen Award (coach of the year)
Rikard Grönborg, Tappara

Voting: Rikard Grönborg, Tappara 255 (39 ykkössijaa), Tommi Niemelä, Pelicans 180 (15), Petri Karjalainen, KalPa 124 (10), Olli Jokinen, Jukurit 54 (6), Ville Mäntymaa, Kärpät 24 (1), Tommi Miettinen, TPS 2

Urpo Ylönen Award (best goaltender)
Christian Heljanko, Tappara

Voting: Christian Heljanko, Tappara 333 (63), Niklas Kokko, Pelicans 161 (4), Niklas Rubin, Ässät 77 (2), Stefanos Lekkas, KalPa 32 (2), Niko Hovinen, HIFK 17, Markus Ruusu, Jukurit 12, Sami Rajaniemi, HPK 3, Tomi Karhunen, Kärpät 2, Jakub Málek, Ilves 1, Miroslav Svoboda, Sport 1

Pekka Rautakallio Award (best defenseman)
Charles-Édouard D'Astous, KooKoo

Voting: Charles-Édouard D'Astous, KooKoo 182 (30), Filip Král, Pelicans 151 (20), Veli-Matti Vittasmäki, Tappara 60 (6), Luke Martin, HIFK 60 (1), Sami Niku, Ilves/JYP 57 (4), Valtteri Kemiläinen, Tappara 48 (6), Otto Leskinen, Tappara 21 (3), Atte Ohtamaa, Kärpät 15 (1), Miika Koivisto, Kärpät 10, Atro Leppänen, Sport 9, Michal Jordán, Pelicans 7, Jesper Mattila, KalPa 4, Aleksi Elorinne, KalPa 3, Kasper Puutio, Pelicans 3, Luke Witkovski, Tappara 3, Linus Nässen, Jukurit 1, Otto Latvala, Ilves 1

Raimo Kilpiö Award (most gentlemanly player)
Veli-Matti Vittasmäki, Tappara (selected by league)

Jarmo Wasama Memorial Award (rookie of the year)
Viljami Marjala, TPS

Voting: Viljami Marjala, TPS 286 (44), Oiva Keskinen, Tappara 176 (18), Atro Leppänen, Sport 119 (7), Aleksi Antti-Roiko, Kärpät 26, Janne Naukkarinen, SaiPa 4, Juuso Ketola, HPK 3, Noa Vali, TPS 1

All-Star Team
Goaltender: Christian Heljanko, Tappara
Defensemen: Charle-Edouard D'Astous, KooKoo ja Filip Král, Pelicans
Center: Oula Palve, Ilves
Wingers: Teemu Turunen, Kärpät ja Anton Levtchi, Tappara

Voting – centers: Oula Palve, Ilves 48, Oliver Kapanen, KalPa 7, Otto Rauhala, Tappara 7, Jori Lehterä, HIFK 2, Nathan Schnarr, Pelicans 2, Oiva Keskinen, Tappara 1, Viljami Marjala, TPS 1

Voting – wingers: Teemu Turunen, Kärpät 46, Anton Levtchi, Tappara 34, Jerry Turkulainen, JYP 32, Ryan Lasch, Pelicans 12, Eemeli Suomi, Ilves 6, Veli-Matti Savinainen, Tappara 3, Ville Koivunen, Kärpät 3, Markus Nurmi, TPS 1, Petteri Puhakka, Tappara 1, Juuso Mäenpää, KalPa 1

The goaltender and defensemen on the All-Star Team were determined by the voting for the Best Goaltender and Best Defenseman awards.