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Anssi Melametsä

Finnish ice hockey player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ570187 ↗
Source-derived summary

Anssi Ilari Melametsä (born June 21, 1961) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League and SM-liiga. He played for Jokerit, where he was captain, as well as HIFK, and the Winnipeg Jets. Internationally he represented Finland at several World Championships and at the 1984 Winter Olympics.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Anssi Melametsä” as finnish ice hockey player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Anssi, Melametsä and Finnish.

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—1961, 1984—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1961-06-21. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Anssi, Melametsä and Finnish providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Anssi Melametsä”, the useful work is to connect “finnish ice hockey player” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Jul 4, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q570187. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1961 and 1984.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Anssi Melametsä” 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.