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David Perron

Canadian ice hockey player (born 1988)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

David Perron is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a left winger and an unrestricted free agent. He most recently played for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “David Perron” as canadian ice hockey player (born 1988). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around David, Perron and Canadian.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current 34-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with David, Perron and Canadian providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “David Perron”, the useful work is to connect “canadian ice hockey player (born 1988)” 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 Sep 19, 2026.

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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.

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This entry incorporates text from “David Perron” 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.