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Timo Meier
New Jersey Devils Right Wing
One hundred and ninety-one goals in 541 games, a career minus-65, and a minus-28 last season.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | SJS | 34 | 3 | 3 | 6 | +1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 85 | 3.5 | 12:28 |
| 2017-18 | SJS | 81 | 21 | 15 | 36 | +2 | 51 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 210 | 10.0 | 14:52 |
| 2018-19 | SJS | 78 | 30 | 36 | 66 | +9 | 55 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 250 | 12.0 | 16:58 |
| 2019-20 | SJS | 70 | 22 | 27 | 49 | -22 | 42 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 199 | 11.1 | 17:17 |
| 2020-21 | SJS | 54 | 12 | 19 | 31 | -5 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 155 | 7.7 | 16:03 |
| 2021-22 | SJS | 77 | 35 | 41 | 76 | -3 | 54 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 326 | 10.7 | 19:09 |
| 2022-23 | SJS/NJD | 78 | 40 | 26 | 66 | -19 | 43 | 17 | 0 | 5 | 327 | 12.2 | 19:23 |
| 2023-24 | NJD | 69 | 28 | 24 | 52 | -28 | 45 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 207 | 13.5 | 17:36 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 541 | 191 | 191 | 382 | -65 | 322 | 52 | 0 | 26 | 1759 | 10.9 | 17:04 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
69 games, 28 goals and 24 assists for 52 points, 10 on the power play, 45 penalty minutes, 17:36 a night and minus-28. He took 48.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,011 minutes, the 45th percentile, and his ice went 43-58 against an expectation of 43.34-45.25.
Level with the chances at one end and thirteen more conceded than they called for at the other. The minus-28 is the worst on the club and almost all of it is goaltending: at the offensive end his line got exactly what it created.
The Finesse Game
207 shots at a median of 28 feet with 36 per cent from inside 20, converted at 13.5 per cent against a career 10.86.
191 career assists in 541 games, exactly level with the goals. The shot is heavy and it comes from the left circle, and he has scored thirty or more three times. He is not a playmaker and the assist total is a by-product of who he plays with.
The Physical Game
He is 6-1 and 220 and forechecks hard, and he wins the wall against anybody.
322 career penalty minutes in 541 games is a real rate. He finishes checks, takes liberties after the whistle, and is very difficult to move off a puck in the corner.
The Intangibles
Ninth overall in 2015 out of Herisau, eight seasons across two organisations, and 382 points in 541 games at a career minus-65.
He is 28 and the career minus-65 is seven seasons of San Jose plus one of this. The forty-goal season in 2022-23 is what the contract was signed against and he has not been near it since.
What kind of player
The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.
“He is 6-1 and 220 and forechecks hard, and he wins the wall against anybody.”
“He is 6-1 and 220 and forechecks hard, and he wins the wall against anybody.”
“He is 6-1 and 220 and forechecks hard, and he wins the wall against anybody.”
“He finishes checks, takes liberties after the whistle, and is very difficult to move off a puck in the corner.”
“He finishes checks, takes liberties after the whistle, and is very difficult to move off a puck in the corner.”
“He is not a playmaker and the assist total is a by-product of who he plays with.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,011 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.9%
- 45th pct
- Shot attempts
- 50.7%
- 60th pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 43 for, 58 against. Expected: 43.3 and 45.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 22 points above where the numbers do. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
Both bars are percentiles among the 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 73 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2023-24 · 69 games
- Top speed
- 23.3 mph
- 93rd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.49 a game
- Distance
- 2.83 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 89.1 mph
- 65th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.
Usual linemates
2023-24 · 1011 minutes at five-on-five
- Jesper Bratt22%
Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.
Why the numbers land there
Five-on-five, 2023-24
- The club
- NJD took 50.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.9% — 1.8 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 1,011 minutes at five-on-five — 59th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dawson Mercer | 47.2% | 50.0% | 48.8% |
| Kevin Bahl | 52.1% | 47.3% | 50.1% |
| John Marino | 50.1% | 48.4% | 49.1% |
47.2% together, 50.0% for him apart and 48.8% for Mercer apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
312 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 28 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 36% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 25% from beyond forty.