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Bill Bowler

Canadian ice hockey player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 23, 2026
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William J. Bowler is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre. He played nine games in the National Hockey League with the Columbus Blue Jackets during the 2000–01 season. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1995 to 2003, was spent in the minor leagues. He is currently the General Manager of the Windsor Spitfires in the Ontario Hockey League.

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The public source identifies “Bill Bowler” as canadian ice hockey player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bill, Bowler and Canadian.

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—2000, 1995, 2003—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Bill, Bowler and Canadian providing the first useful test.
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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 Mar 23, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2000, 1995 and 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bill Bowler” 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.