# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sami-niku
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:56:39.326Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sami-niku"
name: "Sami Niku"
slug: "sami-niku"
description: "Sami Niku is a Finnish professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing with Lausanne HC of the National League (NL). He was selected in the seventh round, 198th overall, by the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League (NHL) in the 2015 NHL entry draft."
tagline: "Finnish ice hockey player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sami_Niku_-_51706740146_(cropped)_(1).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1996-10-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.79
  momentum:             8.4375
  historical:           7.872390666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%96_%D0%9D%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%83"
    title: "Самі Ніку"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%89_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88"
    title: "سامى نيكو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Niku"
    title: "Sami Niku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Niku"
    title: "Sami Niku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Niku"
    title: "Sami Niku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Niku"
    title: "Sami Niku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Niku"
    title: "Sami Niku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%83%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8"
    title: "Нику, Сами"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Niku"
    title: "Sami Niku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18633454"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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