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Mika Järvinen (ice hockey)

Finnish ice hockey player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ8839096 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mika Järvinen (born November 15, 1988) is a Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender. He currently plays for Vaasan Sport in Liiga.

He was the only goaltender who has scored a goal in the SM-liiga, done while playing for KalPa against Lukko on December 4, 2008.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Mika Järvinen (ice hockey)” is finnish ice hockey player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mika, Järvinen 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—1988, 2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1988-11-15. For this dossier, Mika, Järvinen and hockey is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q8839096. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1988 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mika Järvinen (ice hockey)” 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.