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Brian Cavanaugh

ice hockey player and coach

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ17517028 ↗
Source-derived summary

Brian Cavanaugh is a former ice hockey coach who led Canisius for 23 years before being fired during the 2004-05 season. Though he had established himself over a long tenure with the Golden Griffins, leading them to becoming a Division I program, Cavanaugh was fired by the athletic director in December 2004 due to a slew of complaints from the team. He has since retired as the athletic director at D'Youville College.

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“Brian Cavanaugh” enters the record as ice hockey player and coach. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Brian, Cavanaugh and hockey can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Brian, Cavanaugh and hockey.
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“Brian Cavanaugh” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Brian, Cavanaugh and hockey provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Jun 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q17517028. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from “Brian Cavanaugh” 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.