# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/raymond-sawada
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:58:54.553Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/raymond-sawada"
name: "Raymond Sawada"
slug: "raymond-sawada"
description: "Raymond Masao Sawada was a Canadian professional ice hockey winger. The Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL) selected him in the second round of the 2004 NHL entry draft, and he played 11 games with them between 2008 and 2011. Sawada spent most of his career, which lasted from 2008 to 2016, in the American Hockey League, with subsequent stints in the ECHL, SM-Liiga, Elite Ice Hockey League, and Asia League Ice Hockey. After he retired from the sport he become a firefighter. Sawada died in 2023 after suffering a heart attack during a recreational hockey game."
tagline: "Canadian ice hockey player (1985–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Raymond_Sawada.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1985-02-19"
deathDate: "2023-04-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.345033333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Raymond Sawada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "رايموند ساوادا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "رايموند ساوادا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Sawada"
    title: "Raymond Sawada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Sawada"
    title: "Raymond Sawada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Sawada"
    title: "Raymond Sawada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Sawada"
    title: "Raymond Sawada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Sawada"
    title: "Raymond Sawada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Sawada"
    title: "Raymond Sawada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Sawada"
    title: "Raymond Sawada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q438914"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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