It's a given that the Champions Hockey League, featuring 24 of the very best teams of the continent each season, has a wide selection of hugely successful international players in its pool of players, but even among some of these big stars are some that stand just one step higher.

Chief among them is newly-crowned European Club Champion Valtteri Filppula of Genève-Servette, who has just become the very first Triple Gold Club member to lift the European Trophy - just a season after he was crowned champion of the National League!

With 10 points (3G+7A), including a duo of goals in Genève's do-or-die Semi-Finals clash with Lukko Rauma, in 13 games played, the elite forward hasn't missed a single CHL game for the reigning Swiss champions this season.

Being a Triple Gold Club member (Stanley Cup, Olympic Games and IIHF World Championship winner) is an honour only 30 players in the World have achieved, but adding the Champions Hockey League into the mix has created a whole new level of special, and it all starts with Filppula as the groundbreaker.