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2003–04 IIHF Continental Cup

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 17, 2022
Entity authorityQ626258 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Continental Cup 2003–04 was the seventh edition of the IIHF Continental Cup. The season started on September 26, 2003, and finished on January 11, 2004.

The tournament was won by HC Slovan Bratislava, who beat HK Gomel in the final.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “2003–04 IIHF Continental Cup” as open-knowledge reference entry. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where IIHF, Continental and Open-knowledge can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as open-knowledge reference entry. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 17, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q626258. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2003 and 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from “2003–04 IIHF Continental Cup” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.