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Doug Weight

American ice hockey player (born 1971)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Douglas Daniel Weight is an American former professional ice hockey player, coach, and current hockey operations adviser for the San Jose Sharks. He played as a center for 19 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New York Rangers, Edmonton Oilers, St. Louis Blues, Carolina Hurricanes, Anaheim Ducks, and New York Islanders.

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“Doug Weight” enters the record as american ice hockey player (born 1971). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Doug, Weight and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current 54-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 strongest next move is a source search built around Doug, Weight and American.
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“Doug Weight” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Doug, Weight and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Aug 30, 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Doug Weight” 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.