# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sami-vatanen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:33:55.692Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sami-vatanen"
name: "Sami Vatanen"
slug: "sami-vatanen"
description: "Sami Vatanen is a Finnish professional ice hockey defenceman for JYP of the Finnish Liiga. He was drafted in the fourth round, 106th overall, by the Anaheim Ducks at the 2009 NHL entry draft, and played in National Hockey League for the Ducks, New Jersey Devils, Carolina Hurricanes and Dallas Stars. Vatanen started his career in hometown Jyväskylä playing for JYP with whom he won the 2011–12 SM-liiga championship. In 2023, Vatanen won the Swiss National League (NL) championship with Genève-Servette HC, and the Champions Hockey League (CHL) in the 2023–24 season."
tagline: "Finnish ice hockey player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SamiVatanen.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1991-06-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.08
  momentum:             15.25806451612903
  historical:           15.09528666666667
  currentAttention:     6.840000000000001
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "萨米·瓦塔宁"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سامى ڤاتانين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sami Vatanen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Vatanen"
    title: "Sami Vatanen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Vatanen"
    title: "Sami Vatanen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Vatanen"
    title: "Sami Vatanen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%86"
    title: "سامی واتانن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Vatanen"
    title: "Sami Vatanen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Vatanen"
    title: "Sami Vatanen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Vatanen"
    title: "Sami Vatanen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%82%AC%EB%AF%B8_%EB%B0%94%ED%83%80%EB%84%A8"
    title: "사미 바타넨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sami Vatanens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Vatanen"
    title: "Sami Vatanen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Vatanen"
    title: "Sami Vatanen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Vatanen"
    title: "Sami Vatanen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8"
    title: "Ватанен, Сами"
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    title: "Sami Vatanen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Самі Ватанен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump