Tim Heed

Tim Heed
Date of birth	January 27, 1991
place of birth	Gothenburg , Sweden
size	180 cm
Weight	80 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2010 , 5th round, 132nd position Anaheim Ducks
Career stations
until 2011	Södertälje SK
2011–2012	Malmo Redhawks
2012	Vaxjo Lakers
2012-2013	VIK Västerås HK
2013-2016	Skellefteå AIK
2016-2018	San Jose Barracuda
since 2017	San Jose Sharks

Tim Heed (born January 27, 1991 in Gothenburg ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the San Jose Sharks in the National Hockey League since May 2016 and plays for them in the position of defender . His father Jonas Heed was also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Tim Heed began his career as an ice hockey player in the youth department of Södertälje SK - but as a striker . For his professional team, the defender made his debut in the Elitserien in the 2009/10 season . In his rookie year , he scored one goal in 27 games and provided nine assists. After the penultimate place in the main round, he and his team managed to stay in the Kvalserien . He contributed to this with four templates in ten games. Subsequently, the Swedish junior international was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2010 in the fifth round as a total of 132 players by the Anaheim Ducks . In the 2010/11 season he played in the main round mostly as a loan player for the Växjö Lakers in HockeyAllsvenskan , the second Swedish division. In the Kvalserien he was relegated to the second division with Södertälje SK.

For the 2011/12 season , Heed joined the Swedish second division team Malmö Redhawks . After the end of the season, he first signed a contract with the Växjö Lakers, who were promoted to the Elitserien in 2011. A few weeks later he also received an NHL entry contract from the Anaheim Ducks, but was loaned to the Lakers for the 2012/13 season, which, however, loaned him to VIK Västerås HK a short time later . In the summer of 2013, the loan contract was transferred to Skellefteå AIK , with which Heed was Swedish champion . For the following season he was firmly committed. Heed paid back the trust with 37 scorer points in 50 missions, which brought him the Salming Trophy as the best defender in the league at the end of the season . He was also runner-up with Skellefteå. The team repeated this success with Heed in the following year.

After the 2015/16 season , the defender decided to move to North America and signed a one-year contract with the San Jose Sharks from the National Hockey League . There he spent the first half of the season exclusively in the Sharks farm team , the San Jose Barracuda , in the American Hockey League . After he had 31 scorer points in the first 28 missions up to the beginning of January 2017 and the defense of the San Jose Sharks was plagued by various injuries, Heed was appointed to the NHL squad San Joses for the first time. He finally made his debut there on January 11th. However, he spent the rest of the season in the AHL and was appointed to the Second All-Star Team at the end of the season .

International

For Sweden's U19 and U20 juniors , Heed played various friendly matches in 2009 and 2010. He also played for Sweden in the tournaments of the Euro Hockey Tour between 2014 and 2016 .

Achievements and Awards

2014 Swedish champion with Skellefteå AIK 2015 Swedish runner-up with Skellefteå AIK 2015 Salming Trophy

2016 Swedish runner-up with Skellefteå AIK 2017 AHL Second All-Star Team

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2007/08	Södertälje SK J18	J18 elite		22nd	4th	15th	19th	22nd		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Södertälje SK J18	J18 Allsvenskan		14th	0	9	9	12		2	0	0	0	4th
2007/08	Södertälje SK J20	J20 SuperElit		2	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Södertälje SK J18	J18 elite		11	6th	8th	14th	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Södertälje SK J18	J18 Allsvenskan		3	1	2	3	4th		3	3	2	5	2
2008/09	Södertälje SK J20	J20 SuperElit		32	1	7th	8th	10		2	0	1	1	0
2009/10	Södertälje SK J20	J20 SuperElit		32	8th	29	37	20th		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Södertälje SK	Elitserien		27	1	9	10	2		10 1	0	4th	4th	0
2010/11	Södertälje SK J20	J20 SuperElit		2	0	2	2	2		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Södertälje SK	Elitserien		12	1	0	1	0		10 1	0	4th	4th	4th
2010/11	Växjö Lakers Hockey	Allsvenskan		29	3	20th	23	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Malmo Redhawks	Allsvenskan		47	4th	26th	30th	10		6th	1	2	3	0
2012/13	Växjö Lakers Hockey J20	J20 SuperElit		4th	2	4th	6th	0		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Växjö Lakers Hockey	Elitserien		10	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	VIK Västerås HK	Allsvenskan		33	5	8th	13	12		8 1	0	2	2	0
2013/14	Skellefteå AIK	SHL		40	1	4th	5	2		2	0	0	0	0
2014/15	Skellefteå AIK	SHL		50	10	27	37	10		15th	2	9	11	0
2015/16	Skellefteå AIK	SHL		52	8th	15th	22nd	2		16	3	6th	9	4th
2016/17	San Jose Barracuda	AHL		55	14th	42	56	12		15th	3	7th	10	6th
2016/17	San Jose Sharks	NHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	San Jose Barracuda	AHL		10	1	4th	5	6th		4th	0	3	3	4th
2017/18	San Jose Sharks	NHL		29	3	8th	11	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	San Jose Sharks	NHL		37	2	11	13	10		3	0	0	0	0
2019/20	San Jose Sharks	NHL		38	1	4th	5	2		-	-	-	-	-
J20 SuperElit overall				72	11	42	53	32		2	0	1	1	0
Allsvenskan total				109	12	54	66	30th		14th	1	4th	5	0
Elitserien / SHL overall				191	21st	55	76	18th		53	5	23	28	8th
AHL total				65	15th	46	61	18th		19th	3	10	13	10
NHL overall				105	6th	23	29	20th		3	0	0	0	0

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

• Player biography on the San Jose Sharks website
• Tim Heed at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Tim Heed at hockeydb.com (English)