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Steve Lyon

Canadian ice hockey player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ3498999 ↗
Source-derived summary

Steve Lyon (born November 3, 1952) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played 3 games in the National Hockey League with the Pittsburgh Penguins during the 1976–77 season.

Career

Lyon signed with the Pittsburgh Penguins as a free agent in November 1976. He played a total of 3 games at the NHL level.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Steve Lyon” is canadian ice hockey player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Steve, Lyon and Canadian, 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—1952, 1976—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1952-11-03. For this dossier, Steve, Lyon and Canadian is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “canadian 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

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 Aug 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3498999. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1952 and 1976.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. 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.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Steve Lyon” 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.