# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-laviolette
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:45:34.998Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-laviolette"
name: "Peter Laviolette"
slug: "peter-laviolette"
description: "Peter Philip Laviolette Jr. is an American professional ice hockey coach and former player who is the head coach for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL). Originally undrafted by teams in the NHL, he played a total of 12 games with the Rangers in the 1988–89 season. Following retirement from active play, Laviolette also served as head coach of the New York Islanders, Carolina Hurricanes, Philadelphia Flyers, Nashville Predators, and Washington Capitals. He led the Hurricanes to a Stanley Cup win in 2006, and later coached the Flyers to the Stanley Cup Final in 2010, as well as the Predators in 2017. Laviolette is the fourth coach in NHL history to lead three teams to the Stanley Cup Final."
tagline: "American ice hockey player and coach"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_Laviolette_by_2eight-1015.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1964-12-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             10
  historical:           13.05888533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "彼得·拉维奥莱特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پيتير لاڤيوليت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Laviolette"
    title: "Peter Laviolette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Laviolette"
    title: "Peter Laviolette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Laviolette"
    title: "Peter Laviolette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%ABters_Laviolets"
    title: "Pīters Laviolets"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Peter Laviolette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Laviolette"
    title: "Peter Laviolette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%96%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%82"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump