# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-watson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:24:38.685Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-watson"
name: "Joe Watson"
slug: "joe-watson"
description: "Joseph John Watson is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played for the Boston Bruins, Philadelphia Flyers, and Colorado Rockies during his National Hockey League (NHL) career. With the Flyers, he played with his younger brother Jimmy for several seasons, and was a member of the Flyers' back-to-back Stanley Cup championship teams. In the infamous 1976 game against the Soviet Red Army team, Watson, a defenceman and not a big scorer, scored a shorthanded goal against the great Vladislav Tretiak, causing Flyers coach Fred Shero to joke that Watson had \"set Russian hockey back 25 years\"."
tagline: "Canadian ice hockey defenceman"
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: "1943-07-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.11
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.546941333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE_%D0%92%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Джо Вотсон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "چو واتسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Watson_(Eishockeyspieler)"
    title: "Joe Watson (Eishockeyspieler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Watson_(ice_hockey)"
    title: "Joe Watson (ice hockey)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Watson"
    title: "Joe Watson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE"
    title: "Уотсон, Джо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Watson"
    title: "Joe Watson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6212924"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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