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Jan Mertzig

Swedish ice hockey player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ452846 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jan Mertzig (born July 18, 1970) is a Swedish former professional ice hockey player who played 23 games in the National Hockey League. He played for the New York Rangers. He was awarded Swedish Elite League Rookie of the Year Award for his achievements during the 1995–1996 season.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Jan Mertzig” is swedish ice hockey player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mertzig, Swedish and hockey, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1970, 1995, 1996—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970-07-18. For this dossier, Mertzig, Swedish and hockey is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “swedish 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 Aug 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q452846. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1970, 1995 and 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jan Mertzig” 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.