Timo Meier

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

2015 Participation in the CHL Top Prospects Game 2015 LHJMQ Second All-Star Team 2015 Michael Bossy Trophy

2016 Coupe-du-Président -Win with the Huskies de Rouyn-Noranda 2016 Memorial Cup All-Star Team

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
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:

European Youth Olympic Winter Festival 2013 U18 Junior World Championship 2013 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2013

U20 World Junior Championship 2015 U20 World Junior Championship 2016 World Championship 2018

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	+/-
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)