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Timothy Liljegren
San Jose Sharks Defense
Traded from Toronto in November and finished the season minus-25 on the worst club in the league.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | TOR | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 10:18 |
| 2020-21 | TOR | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 15:06 |
| 2021-22 | TOR | 61 | 5 | 18 | 23 | +15 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 79 | 6.3 | 16:24 |
| 2022-23 | TOR | 67 | 6 | 12 | 18 | +24 | 30 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 84 | 7.1 | 17:55 |
| 2023-24 | TOR | 55 | 3 | 20 | 23 | +3 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 62 | 4.8 | 19:40 |
| 2024-25 | TOR/SJS | 68 | 6 | 11 | 17 | -25 | 38 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 102 | 5.9 | 19:11 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 264 | 20 | 62 | 82 | +13 | 102 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 330 | 6.1 | 17:55 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 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
6 goals and 11 assists in 68 games across Toronto and San Jose — 17 points at 19:11 a night, minus-25, with 38 penalty minutes.
47.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 27th percentile. His ice went 35-53 against an expectation of 41.07-45.62 — ten goals of scoring missing and one extra conceded, which says the chance suppression was fine and the results were not.
The Finesse Game
102 attempts at a median of 51 feet with 73 per cent from beyond 40, and 6 goals — a career high.
The skating is the reason he was a first-round pick and it is still the best thing about him. He escapes the first forechecker and he is comfortable carrying the puck through the neutral zone; the decisions with it are where the career has stalled.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 200 and he does not play heavy. He defends with his stick and his feet rather than with contact, and he does not clear the front of his own net.
38 penalty minutes in 68 games is a moderate rate. He is not an agitator and the physical game is not part of the appeal.
The Intangibles
Seventeenth overall in 2017 and seven years of being a Toronto prospect, which is its own particular kind of scrutiny — 264 games and 82 points.
He was traded to San Jose in November for a pair of draft picks. He is 26, and a right-shot defenceman who can skate is a useful thing to own on a club three years from being good.
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 escapes the first forechecker and he is comfortable carrying the puck through the neutral zone; the decisions with it are where the career has stalled.”
“He defends with his stick and his feet rather than with contact, and he does not clear the front of his own net.”
“He defends with his stick and his feet rather than with contact, and he does not clear the front of his own net.”
“He is not an agitator and the physical game is not part of the appeal.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,070 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.4%
- 30th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.8%
- 23rd 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: 35 for, 53 against. Expected: 41.1 and 45.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 13 points of one another. 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.
Both bars are percentiles among the 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 66 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, 2024-25 · 68 games
- Top speed
- 22.7 mph
- 86th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.91 a game
- Distance
- 2.74 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 93.4 mph
- 71st pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 89.7
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
2024-25 · 1058 minutes at five-on-five
- Lucas Carlssonoff the roster9%
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, 2024-25
- The club
- SJS took 44.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.4% — 3.2 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,070 minutes at five-on-five — 71st percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mario Ferraro | 47.6% | 47.1% | 45.7% |
| Macklin Celebrini | 48.8% | 46.7% | 50.3% |
| William Eklund | 55.3% | 44.5% | 48.0% |
47.6% together, 47.1% for him apart and 45.7% for Ferraro 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
157 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 47 feet. 6% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 73% from beyond forty.