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Daniel Branda

Czech ice hockey player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ5216647 ↗
Source-derived summary

Daniel Branda (born 20 February 1976) is a Czech former professional ice hockey forward who played in the Czech Extraliga (ELH) for HC Litvínov, HC Slavia Praha, HC Sparta Praha, HC Plzeň, and HC Kladno. He also played in the Russian Superleague (RSL) for HC Sibir Novosibirsk.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Daniel Branda” is czech ice hockey player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Daniel, Branda and Czech, 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—1976—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976-02-20. For this dossier, Daniel, Branda and Czech is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “czech 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

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 Jan 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5216647. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1976.

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 “Daniel Branda” 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.