# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/poul-popiel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:07:49.101Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/poul-popiel"
name: "Poul Popiel"
slug: "poul-popiel"
description: "Poul Peter Popiel is a Danish-American former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) and World Hockey Association (WHA), and also served as a head coach in the minor leagues. He played all six of his WHA seasons with the Houston Aeros. Following a brief 12 games in the International Hockey League (IHL) with the Muskegon Mohawks, he retired and became the head coach. Popiel and Garry Peters were co-winners of the inaugural Ken McKenzie Trophy as Central Professional Hockey League rookies of the year in 1963-64. His younger brother Jan Popiel is also a former professional hockey player."
tagline: "Danish ice hockey player"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/PoulPopielAeros.png"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1943-02-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.46
  momentum:             1.925133689839572
  historical:           6.341361333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Пауль Попель"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%BE%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "پول پوپيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Popiel"
    title: "Poul Popiel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Popiel"
    title: "Poul Popiel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Popiel"
    title: "Poul Popiel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Popiel"
    title: "Poul Popiel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Popiel"
    title: "Poul Popiel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q357406"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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