# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/orval-tessier
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:30:59.236Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/orval-tessier"
name: "Orval Tessier"
slug: "orval-tessier"
description: "Orval Roy Tessier was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre and coach who played parts of three seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens and Boston Bruins between 1954 and 1960, appearing in a total of 59 regular season games. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1953 to 1965, was spent in the minor leagues, where he was a solid offensive player. He won two scoring titles with the Eastern Professional Hockey League's Kingston Frontenacs, and was voted the league's most valuable player and most sportsmanlike player in the 1961–62 season."
tagline: "Canadian ice hockey coach (1933–2022)"
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: "1933-06-30"
deathDate: "2022-08-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.03
  momentum:             12.76595744680851
  historical:           5.678114666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orval_Tessier"
    title: "Orval Tessier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "اورڤال تيسير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orval_Tessier"
    title: "Orval Tessier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BB_%D0%A2%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%D1%8C%D1%94"
    title: "Орвел Тессьє"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orval_Tessier"
    title: "Orval Tessier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orval_Tessier"
    title: "Orval Tessier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2032317"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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