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EHC Olten

Swiss ice hockey club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ681072 ↗
Source-derived summary

EHC Olten is a Swiss professional ice hockey team based in Olten, Switzerland. It plays in the Swiss League, the second tier ice hockey league in Switzerland. It has claimed two Swiss League Championships, gaining promotion to the National League in 1985, 1988 and 1993.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “EHC Olten” is swiss ice hockey club. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Olten, Swiss and hockey, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985, 1988, 1993—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1934-01-01. For this dossier, Olten, Swiss and hockey is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “swiss ice hockey club” 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

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q681072. VIAF identifies the subject as 7685150869812222190006. None of the 3 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1985, 1988 and 1993.

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This entry incorporates text from “EHC Olten” 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.