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Simon Edvinsson

Swedish ice hockey player (born 2003)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Simon Edvinsson is a Swedish professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL). Edvinsson was selected in the first round, sixth overall, by the Red Wings in the 2021 NHL entry draft.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Simon Edvinsson” as swedish ice hockey player (born 2003). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Simon, Edvinsson and Swedish.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Simon, Edvinsson and Swedish providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Simon Edvinsson”, the useful work is to connect “swedish ice hockey player (born 2003)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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. The first chronological checks are 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Simon Edvinsson” 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.