Timo Meier
Date of birth | October 8, 1996 |
place of birth | Herisau , Switzerland |
Size | 184 cm |
Weight | 96 kg |
position | Right wing |
number | # 28 |
Shot hand | Left |
Draft | |
NHL Entry Draft |
2015 , 1st round, 9th position San Jose Sharks |
Career stations | |
until 2010 | SC Herisau |
2010–2012 | PIKES EHC Oberthurgau |
2012-2013 | Rapperswil-Jona Lakers |
2013-2016 | Halifax Mooseheads |
2016 | Huskies de Rouyn-Noranda |
since 2016 | San Jose Sharks |
Timo Meier (born October 8, 1996 in Herisau ) is a Swiss ice hockey player who has been under contract with the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League since July 2015 and has played for them in the position of right winger since December 2016 .
Career
Meier learned to play ice hockey in the junior department of the SC Herisau , the club in his hometown. There he played in the club's U15 team at the age of 11 and later in the U17 class at the age of 13, before leaving the club in the summer of 2010 at the age of 14. In the following two years, the striker went on the ice for the U15 and U17 teams of PIKES EHC Oberthurgau . There he also celebrated his men's debut in the course of the 2011/12 season, when he ran up in a game for Oberthurgau's second team in the sixth division and collected four scorer points.
After two years in Oberthurgau, Meier switched to the youth team of the Rapperswil-Jona Lakers , where he was part of both the U17 and U20 teams. When the Halifax Mooseheads from the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec came twelfth in the CHL Import Draft in summer 2013 , the power forward finally dared to make the leap to North America and played for the team at the beginning of the 2013/14 season . The Swiss initially only played a subordinate role behind the top scorers Jonathan Drouin and Nikolaj Ehlers and achieved 34 scorer points in 66 games. After Drouin left, Meier and the Dane Ehlers formed the new Mooseheads management team for the 2014/15 season . With 90 scorer points, the striker narrowly missed the top ten of the best scorers in the league, but was nevertheless appointed to the league's second all-star team. He was nominated for the CHL Top Prospects Game during the season. Meier's rapid development had drawn the attention of the National Hockey League franchises to the attention of him, as a result of which he was selected by the San Jose Sharks in ninth overall position in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft . As the first player selected from the LHJMQ in the draft, Meier received the Michael Bossy Trophy . As early as July 2015, the Sharks' management committed their first round election from the beginning of his first professional season for the following three years by means of an NHL entry contract and observed him closely in their pre-season training camp in September.
Due to the great competition in the squad and the fact that Meier should gain more experience with the juniors, the attacker was sent again to Halifax in the LHJMQ at the beginning of the 2015/16 season . After moving from Ehlers to the professional camp, Meier was now the team’s sole leading player, which was also reflected in the appointment as team captain . Although Meier was able to bear this burden with 36 points in 23 games until shortly before the turn of the year, the team's poor results prompted the management to start a new structure. As a result, on January 6, 2016, they transferred their captain to the title contender Huskies de Rouyn-Noranda for three voting rights in the LHJMQ's entry draft . The Swiss quickly gained a foothold in the huskies and scored a further 51 points in the remaining 29 games of the season, bringing the total to 87 points at the end of the regular season . Meier's yield did not improve compared to the previous year, but he had played nine fewer games than last year. In the following play-offs, Meier was instrumental in winning the Coupe du Président , the LHJMQ championship, with 23 points in 18 games . In addition to him, his fellow storm ranks Francis Perron and AJ Greer were responsible for the first title in the history of the Huskies franchise with a total of 78 points. This was followed by their first participation in the prestigious Memorial Cup , which the Huskies finished in second place after losing to the London Knights of the Ontario Hockey League in the final . Meier was elected to the All-Star-Team at the end of the tournament.
Before the start of the pre-season season in September 2016, the Swiss was considered a promising candidate to secure a place in the San Jose Sharks squad before his first professional season. During the training camp, however, he fell ill with glandular fever and was initially absent until October. After his recovery, Meier found himself in the farm team , the San Jose Barracuda , in the American Hockey League , where he made his professional debut on October 28 in a 4-0 victory over the Bakersfield Condors . As time went on, the striker found his way around the team better and better, before he was called up to the NHL squad San Joses for the first time in just under two months in mid-December. On December 16, he celebrated both his debut and his first goal in the game for the Canadiens de Montréal .
In July 2019, Meier signed a new four-year contract in San Jose that should earn him an average annual salary of six million US dollars.
International
Meier has represented his home country in the junior sector since 2011 at numerous international tournaments and competitions. For the first time the striker was active in international games for the U16 national team. He played 15 games between 2011 and 2012, in which he scored 16 times. With the U17 and U18 national selections, the Power Forward played a total of three tournaments in the course of the 2012/13 season. First he took in February at the European Olympic Youth Festival 2013 in Romania Brasov , where he with the team for a 2: 1 victory over the Czech Republic won the bronze medal. In April, the participation was followed thereof to the Under-18 World Youth Championship in 2013 in Russia's Sochi . Meier only played two out of five games during the tournament when the Swiss were eliminated in the quarter-finals and finished sixth. He finally concluded the season with the traditional Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2013 in Břeclav in the Czech Republic and Piešťany in Slovakia . Switzerland also came in sixth there. By the end of the 2013/14 season, Meier had 14 appearances for the U17s, in which he scored seven points, as well as 15 games and nine points for the U18 team.
At the beginning of the 2014/15 season, Meier was a member of the Swiss U20 national team , which he represented internationally for the first time at the 2015 U20 World Junior Championship in the Canadian cities of Toronto and Montreal . With six scorer points in just as many games, he was one of the four best scorers of the team in the competition and also received - alongside Noah Rod and Kevin Fiala - the award as one of the three best players in the Swiss squad. With the ninth place the team achieved relegation in the top division. In the following year, the attacker was also part of the squad for the 2016 U20 World Youth Championship in the Finnish capital Helsinki , which he led as team captain. With five scorer points, he was again one of the most productive players and thus also secured relegation again. During the two years in the U20 national team, he played a total of 25 games and entered the scorer list 21 times - including nine goals.
The striker made his senior national team debut at the 2018 World Cup in Denmark when he joined the team in the course of the tournament. Meier completed seven of the ten tournament games and got seven scorer points. There were two gates underneath. He scored one of them in the final for a 2-1 lead against Sweden . Ultimately, however, the Swiss lost 3-2 in the penalty shoot-out and had to be content with the silver medal.
Achievements and Awards
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International
- 2013 bronze medal at the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival
- 2018 silver medal at the world championship
Career statistics
Status: end of the 2019/20 season
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | +/- | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | +/- | ||
2012/13 | Rapperswil-Jona Lakers | Elite A Juniors | 33 | 13 | 17th | 30th | 56 | 6 1 | 3 | 5 | 8th | 20th | ||||
2013/14 | Halifax Mooseheads | LHJMQ | 66 | 17th | 17th | 34 | 48 | +10 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 4th | 8th | +1 | ||
2014/15 | Halifax Mooseheads | LHJMQ | 61 | 44 | 46 | 90 | 59 | +20 | 14th | 10 | 11 | 21st | 18th | +1 | ||
2015/16 | Halifax Mooseheads | LHJMQ | 23 | 11 | 25th | 36 | 22nd | +7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2015/16 | Huskies de Rouyn-Noranda | LHJMQ | 29 | 23 | 28 | 51 | 24 | +22 | 18th | 11 | 12 | 23 | 30th | +11 | ||
2016 | Huskies de Rouyn-Noranda | Memorial Cup | 5 | 5 | 3 | 8th | 6th | +1 | ||||||||
2016/17 | San Jose Barracuda | AHL | 33 | 14th | 9 | 23 | 40 | +9 | 14th | 4th | 3 | 7th | 41 | +2 | ||
2016/17 | San Jose Sharks | NHL | 34 | 3 | 3 | 6th | 10 | +1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ± 0 | ||
2017/18 | San Jose Sharks | NHL | 81 | 21st | 15th | 36 | 51 | +2 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | -1 | ||
2018/19 | San Jose Sharks | NHL | 78 | 30th | 36 | 66 | 55 | +9 | 20th | 5 | 10 | 15th | 34 | +3 | ||
2019/20 | San Jose Sharks | NHL | 70 | 22nd | 27 | 49 | 42 | -22 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
Elite A Juniors total | 33 | 13 | 17th | 30th | 56 | 6th | 3 | 5 | 8th | 20th | ||||||
LHJMQ total | 179 | 95 | 116 | 211 | 153 | +59 | 44 | 22nd | 26th | 48 | 56 | +13 | ||||
NHL overall | 263 | 76 | 81 | 157 | 158 | -10 | 35 | 7th | 13 | 20th | 46 | +2 |
International
Represented Switzerland at:
year | team | event | result | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | +/- | |
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2013 | Switzerland | EOWYF | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | −1 | ||
2013 | Switzerland | U18 World Cup | 6th place | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ± 0 | |
2013 | Switzerland | HIMT | 6th place | 4th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4th | ± 0 | |
2015 | Switzerland | U20 World Cup | 9th place | 6th | 2 | 4th | 6th | 2 | +2 | |
2016 | Switzerland | U20 World Cup | 9th place | 6th | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4th | −4 | |
2018 | Switzerland | WM | 7th | 2 | 5 | 7th | 2 | +1 | ||
Juniors overall | 21st | 5 | 9 | 14th | 12 | −3 | ||||
Men overall | 7th | 2 | 5 | 7th | 2 | +1 |
( 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
- Timo Meier at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Timo Meier at hockeydb.com (English)
Goalkeepers:
Aaron Dell |
Martin Jones
defender:
Brent Burns ( A ) |
Mario Ferraro |
Tim Heed |
Erik Karlsson ( A ) |
Dalton Prout |
Radim Šimek |
Marc-Édouard Vlasic
attacker:
Logan Couture ( C ) |
Dylan Gambrell |
Tomáš Hertl ( A ) |
Evander Kane |
Melker Karlsson |
Joel Kellman |
Kevin Labanc |
Timo Meier |
Stefan Noesen |
Marcus Soerensen |
Joe Thornton ( A )
Head Coach: Bob Boughner Assistant Coach : Dave Barr | Steve Spott General Manager: Doug Wilson
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Meier, Timo |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1996 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Herisau , Switzerland |