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Philip Alftberg

Swedish ice hockey player (born 1997)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ20311202 ↗
Source-derived summary

Philip Alftberg (born January 19, 1997) is a Swedish collegiate ice hockey defenceman. He is currently playing Division 1 men's ice hockey with St. Lawrence University of the ECAC.

He formerly played professionally in his native Sweden with Brynäs IF of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). Alftberg made his SHL debut playing with Brynäs IF during the 2014–15 SHL season.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Philip Alftberg” is swedish ice hockey player (born 1997). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Philip, Alftberg and Swedish, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997-01-19. For this dossier, Philip, Alftberg and Swedish is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “swedish ice hockey player (born 1997)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q20311202. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Philip Alftberg” 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.