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Tom Chorske

American ice hockey player (born 1966)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 20, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Thomas Patrick Chorske is an American former professional ice hockey player. A forward, he played for eleven seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). In September, 2006, he was named color commentator for New Jersey Devils radio broadcasts, a position he only held for one season before resigning. He was replaced with former team color commentator Sherry Ross. Chorske returned to Minnesota and now works in business and is hockey analyst for Fox Sports North covering The NHL Minnesota Wild and University of Minnesota Golden Gopher NCAA hockey games.

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“Tom Chorske” enters the record as american ice hockey player (born 1966). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Chorske, American and hockey can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Chorske, American and hockey.
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“Tom Chorske” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Chorske, American and hockey provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Jun 20, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tom Chorske” 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.