# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ken-yackel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:01:01.626Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ken-yackel"
name: "Ken Yackel"
slug: "ken-yackel"
description: "Kenneth James Yackel was an American ice hockey player. Yackel played for the American national team at the 1952 Winter Olympics. He briefly played professionally in the National Hockey League, appearing in six games with the Boston Bruins in 1959, the second American-developed player to appear in the NHL during the 1950s. He was briefly the head coach for Minnesota Gophers during the 1971–72 season, serving in an interim capacity after Glen Sonmor resigned mid-year. Yackel was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 1986."
tagline: "American ice hockey player (1930-1991)"
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: "1930-03-05"
deathDate: "1991-07-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.94
  momentum:             8.000000000000002
  historical:           6.336609333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Yackel"
    title: "Ken Yackel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "كين ياكيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Yackel"
    title: "Ken Yackel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Yackel"
    title: "Ken Yackel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%86_%DB%8C%D8%A7%DA%A9%D9%84"
    title: "کن یاکل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Yackel"
    title: "Kenneth Yackel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Yackel"
    title: "Ken Yackel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1667581"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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