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Dan Chicoine

Canadian ice hockey player

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ901490 ↗
Source-derived summary

Daniel Chicoine (born November 30, 1957) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward who played 31 games in the National Hockey League for the Cleveland Barons and Minnesota North Stars between 1977 and 1980.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Dan Chicoine” is canadian ice hockey player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Chicoine, Canadian and hockey, 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—1957, 1977, 1980—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1957-11-30. For this dossier, Chicoine, Canadian and hockey is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “canadian ice hockey player” 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

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q901490. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1957, 1977 and 1980.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Dan Chicoine”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Dan Chicoine primary sources, Dan Chicoine archive and Chicoine research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Dan Chicoine”?
  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Dan Chicoine” 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.