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Right wing · #28

Timo Meier

San Jose Sharks New Jersey Devils(traded during the season)
Age
30
Shoots
Left
Height
185 cm
Weight
100 kg
Born
Herisau, CHE
Draft
2015, round 1, #9 (SJS)

Career · 2016–17 to 2026–27

Games
702
Goals
241
Points
480
TOI per game
17:19
xGF% (5v5)
53.0%
Goals above expected
−14.0
ShowAll teamsSan Jose SharksNew Jersey Devils

Season by season

The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.

2016–17SJS34336+112:28853.5%07.458.7%
2017–18SJS81211536+214:5221010.0%424.753.6%
2018–19SJS78303666+916:5825012.0%1029.156.3%
2019–20SJS70222749−2217:1719911.1%922.848.1%
2020–21SJS54121931−516:031557.7%1015.450.0%
2021–22SJS77354176−319:0932610.7%1831.952.5%
2022–23SJS57312152−1919:5925512.2%1827.655.7%
2022–23NJD219514017:477212.5%58.657.1%
2022–23All teams78402666−1919:2332712.2%2336.256.1%
2023–24NJD69282452−2817:3620713.5%1722.848.5%
2024–25NJD80262753+717:5223910.9%1330.454.7%
2025–26NJD77242044−1618:312698.9%1032.852.1%
2026–27NJD4011−117:56220.0%01.552.5%
Total2 teams702241239480−7517:192,28910.5%114255.053.0%

Form

Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.

Form, ten-game rolling

Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.

Points per gameixG per gameTOI per game (minutes)
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Player card

Model-based

How 2016–17 to 2026–27 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

1st line

90th percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st line
  2. 2nd line
  3. 3rd line
  4. 4th line
  5. Extra / AHL

Scoring

1st line
  • Goals /601.1994th pct
  • Assists /601.1877th pct
  • ixG /601.2698th pct
  • Goals above expected−14.09th pct

Play-driving

1st line
  • xGF% (5v5)53.0%87th pct
  • CF% (5v5)53.0%89th pct
  • Relative xGF%+3.390th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.2773rd pct

Usage

1st line
  • TOI per game17:1988th pct
  • PP time share43.0%80th pct
  • Offensive zone starts60.6%66th pct
  • Quality of competition25.0%87th pct

Percentiles among forwards with 200+ minutes at 5-on-5 and 20+ games. Ratings rank each column's average percentile among the same players and read it as a role on a depth chart (how).

Most similar players this season

  1. Tyler ToffoliLAK/MTL/CGY/NJD/WPG/SJS0.97
  2. Owen TippettFLA/PHI0.97
  3. Brendan GallagherMTL/VAN0.96
  4. Brady TkachukOTT0.96
  5. Patric HornqvistPIT/FLA0.96
  6. Viktor ArvidssonNSH/LAK/EDM/BOS0.96

Faceoffs

How often Meier wins the draw over 2016–17 to 2026–27, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1951+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

42.7%

253–340 · below the 1951 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

43.0%

Opponents won 50.3% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.7% against them.

Wins above average

−41

Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.

Draws per game

2.0

593 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

40%60 · +1.845%254 · +2.429%84 · +3.556%34 · −0.229%17 · −1.050%20 · +0.620%10 · +6.250%82 · +3.344%32 · −3.3Attacking zone →← Defending zone

Win rate at each dot; the small numbers are draws and the xG swing (×100) of winning rather than losing there.

By zone

  • Offensive zone40.8% 138–200
  • Neutral zone42.6% 60–81
  • Defensive zone48.2% 55–59

By strength

  • Even strength41.1% 195–279
  • Power play50.5% 53–52
  • Shorthanded35.7% 5–9

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +26 after a win, −7 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.9 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2016–17520.0%18.8%
2017–1814648.6%48.5%
2018–193831.6%31.2%
2019–203732.4%34.0%
2020–212828.6%28.6%
2021–223748.6%50.1%
2022–235736.8%38.3%
2023–249048.9%48.9%
2024–252630.8%31.0%
2025–2612545.6%45.9%
2026–27425.0%26.9%

Finishing

Model-based

Did the goals match the chances?

Goals against expected goals

Cumulative goals (solid) and individual xG (dashed) through the season. The gap is finishing: above the dashed line, the player scored more than an average shooter would from the same chances.

−14.0 goals above expected

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Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games

−500+50+100

Speed and tracking

From the NHL's EDGE tracking system (2021–22 on): skating speed, shot speed, distance and zone time, for the selected seasons and then every tracked season, to show improvement or decline.

Tracking data (NHL EDGE)

Values from the NHL's puck and player tracking, with the NHL's own league percentile for each. Missing values mean the player wasn't tracked enough.

Tracking

  • Top skating speed35.8 km/h89th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph1597th pct
  • Hardest shot133.7 km/h77th pct
  • Distance skated15 km69th pct
  • Offensive-zone time45.1%76th pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other forwards that season with 20+ games. A season in progress appears once half its games are played, as provisional: season bests only grow. Bursts and distance are per 60 minutes of ice time, so seasons with fewer games still compare. Percentiles are on these rates, so they can differ from the NHL's, which are on season totals.

This playerMedian forwardMiddle half (25th–75th percentile)Hollow dot: too few games to rank, or a season in progress (*, dashed). Dotted line: no NHL games that season.

Top skating speed

36.1 km/h51st pct

▼ −0.0 km/h since 2024–25

343536373821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 36.4 km/h, 65th percentile (77 games)2022–23: 36.5 km/h, 70th percentile (78 games)2023–24: 37.5 km/h, 92nd percentile (69 games)2024–25: 36.1 km/h, 49th percentile (80 games)2025–26: 36.1 km/h, 51st percentile (77 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

4.743rd pct

▼ −0.6 since 2024–25

24681021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 6.7, 65th percentile (77 games)2022–23: 6.9, 69th percentile (78 games)2023–24: 5.1, 50th percentile (69 games)2024–25: 5.2, 50th percentile (80 games)2025–26: 4.7, 43rd percentile (77 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.7 km63rd pct

▲ +0.1 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 16.2 km, 85th percentile (77 games)2022–23: 15.7 km, 66th percentile (78 games)2023–24: 15.5 km, 47th percentile (69 games)2024–25: 15.6 km, 48th percentile (80 games)2025–26: 15.7 km, 63rd percentile (77 games)

Hardest shot

151.8 km/h94th pct

▲ +6.0 km/h since 2024–25

13014015016017021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 158.1 km/h, 97th percentile (77 games)2022–23: 155.0 km/h, 94th percentile (78 games)2023–24: 143.4 km/h, 57th percentile (69 games)2024–25: 145.7 km/h, 77th percentile (80 games)2025–26: 151.8 km/h, 94th percentile (77 games)

Offensive-zone time

43.2%69th pct

▲ +0.1 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 42.0%, 53rd percentile (77 games)2022–23: 44.8%, 83rd percentile (78 games)2023–24: 41.9%, 51st percentile (69 games)2024–25: 43.2%, 67th percentile (80 games)2025–26: 43.2%, 69th percentile (77 games)