# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jim-nill
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:34:11.100Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jim-nill"
name: "Jim Nill"
slug: "jim-nill"
description: "James Edward Nill is a Canadian former ice hockey player and the current general manager of the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL). Nill played in the NHL throughout the 1980s with the St. Louis Blues, Vancouver Canucks, Boston Bruins, Winnipeg Jets, and Detroit Red Wings, retiring in 1990. Prior to making his NHL debut Nill also played for Canada at the 1980 Winter Olympics. He worked as a scout for the Ottawa Senators before joining the Red Wings in an executive role in 1994, staying with the team before moving to take up the general manager role with Dallas in 2013."
tagline: "Canadian ice hockey player"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1958-04-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.89
  momentum:             15
  historical:           8.116202666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%89%E5%A7%86%C2%B7%E5%B0%BC%E5%B0%94"
    title: "吉姆·尼尔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%85_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "چيم نيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Nill"
    title: "Jim Nill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Nill"
    title: "Jim Nill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85_%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "جیم نیل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Nill"
    title: "Jim Nill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Nill"
    title: "James Nill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Nill"
    title: "Jim Nill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BC_%D0%9D%D1%96%D0%BB%D0%BB"
    title: "Джим Нілл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1689177"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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