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Matt Stajan

Canadian ice hockey player (born 1983)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 29, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Matthew Stajan is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre. He was a second round selection, 57th overall, of the Toronto Maple Leafs at the 2002 NHL entry draft. Stajan made his NHL debut in 2003 and was a member of the Maple Leafs until he was traded to the Calgary Flames in 2010. Stajan played his final professional season with EHC Red Bull München of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL)

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The public source identifies “Matt Stajan” as canadian ice hockey player (born 1983). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Matt, Stajan and Canadian.

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—2002, 2003, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Matt, Stajan and Canadian providing the first useful test.
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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 29, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2002, 2003 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Matt Stajan” 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.