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Éric Lecompte

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 revisionMay 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ955037 ↗
Source-derived summary

Éric Lecompte (born April 4, 1975) is a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger. He was drafted in the first round, 24th overall, by the Chicago Blackhawks in the 1993 NHL entry draft. He never played in the National Hockey League.

Editorial summary

“Éric Lecompte” enters the record as canadian ice hockey player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Éric, Lecompte and Canadian 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 lead gives the account dated anchors—1975, 1993—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1975-04-04. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Éric, Lecompte and Canadian.
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Why this record matters

“Éric Lecompte” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Éric, Lecompte and Canadian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 May 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q955037. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1975 and 1993.

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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  • Locating cited institutions
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Éric Lecompte” 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.