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Samu Perhonen

Finnish ice hockey player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ11892290 ↗
Source-derived summary

Samu Perhonen (born March 7, 1993) is a Finnish ice hockey goaltender. His is currently playing with Boxers de Bordeaux in the French Ligue Magnus. Perhonen was selected by the Edmonton Oilers in the 3rd round (62nd overall) of the 2011 NHL entry draft.

Perhonen made his Liiga debut playing with HIFK during the 2013–14 Liiga season.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993, 2011, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993-03-07. For this dossier, Samu, Perhonen and Finnish is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “finnish 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

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 May 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11892290. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1993, 2011 and 2013.

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

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Samu Perhonen”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Samu Perhonen primary sources, Samu Perhonen archive and Samu research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Samu Perhonen”?
  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Samu Perhonen” 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.