# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dave-silk
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:56:02.741Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dave-silk"
name: "Dave Silk"
slug: "dave-silk"
description: "David Mark Silk is an American former professional ice hockey player. His professional career, which spanned 13 years, included 249 NHL regular season games with the Boston Bruins, Winnipeg Jets, Detroit Red Wings and New York Rangers. Silk is arguably most famous for being a member of the 1980 US Men's hockey team that won the gold medal at the Olympics in Lake Placid. He is the cousin of former NHL and Boston Bruins player Mike Milbury."
tagline: "American ice hockey player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dave_Silk.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1958-01-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.23
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.17944933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%88%B4%E5%A4%AB%C2%B7%E8%A5%BF%E5%B0%94%E5%85%8B"
    title: "戴夫·西尔克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%A4_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%83"
    title: "داڤ سيلك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Silk"
    title: "David Silk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Silk_(Eishockeyspieler)"
    title: "Dave Silk (Eishockeyspieler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Silk"
    title: "Dave Silk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%84%DA%A9"
    title: "دیو سیلک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Silk"
    title: "Dave Silk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Silk"
    title: "Dave Silk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Silk"
    title: "Dave Silk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Silk_(ijshockeyer)"
    title: "Dave Silk (ijshockeyer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Silk"
    title: "Dave Silk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BA%2C_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%B9%D0%B2"
    title: "Силк, Дэйв"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Silk"
    title: "Dave Silk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1173342"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump