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Luc Robitaille

Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1966)

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Luc Jean-Marie Robitaille is a Canadian-American professional ice hockey executive and former player who serves as president of the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Editorial summary

“Luc Robitaille” enters the record as canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1966). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Robitaille, Canadian-American and hockey can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current 28-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 Robitaille, Canadian-American and hockey.
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Why this record matters

“Luc Robitaille” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Robitaille, Canadian-American and hockey provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 27, 2026.

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.

How to read it

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  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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This entry incorporates text from “Luc Robitaille” 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.