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Timo Meier

Swiss ice hockey player (born 1996)

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

Timo Meier is a Swiss professional ice hockey player who is a winger for the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League (NHL). After being selected ninth overall by the San Jose Sharks in the 2015 NHL entry draft, Meier became the third Swiss player in franchise history to be drafted by the team.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Timo Meier” as swiss ice hockey player (born 1996). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Timo, Meier and Swiss.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Timo, Meier and Swiss providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Timo Meier”, the useful work is to connect “swiss ice hockey player (born 1996)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 27, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2015.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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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This entry incorporates text from “Timo Meier” 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.