The looseness: you helped Timo Meier a few days before the start of the season in mid-September. His Team, the San Jose Sharks , made the headlines, committed by Ottawa’s Erik Karlsson, the best Offensive defender at all.
delivery is to take As the Deal was exciting for the Fans, media and players, including Meier. First of all, transpired only that Karlsson come to San Jose, but not who would go the opposite way. In the case of a of the caliber of Karlssons, it was clear that It more be would. The hottest rumor: Timo Meier.
What to talk during an NHL game? Timo Meier with the microphone.
The Appenzeller heard of it, when he went to San Jose just to Training on the ice, and thought to himself: “I’m young, have no family, no house, I am quite for all.” As Meier came an hour later from the ice, it was clear that he was not affected. “I thought it was nice that I was allowed to stay,” says Meier.
His Name was surfaced in the summer of repeats in possible Deals, “and Yes,” he says, “I was probably a couple of times close to it, to have to leave the Club”. From the railway Meier has not thrown this.
nothing happened
Because three months later, it seems inconceivable that the Sharks will apply only to consider Meier in any Deal to install. He shoots the gate to gate 18, there are already since his return in early December after an injury break, he hit in seven Games five times. In a game in Buffalo, he had suffered a concussion. He came back as if nothing had happened, surprised many. Also yourself?
Timo Meier and his Swiss WG-colleague Vincent Praplan in the “me or You?” (Video: Kristian Kapp)
Meier thinks about it and says: “This type of injury is not easy, because you want to burn anything.” He had worked with the Doctors to feel as comfortable as possible in return. “I made rapid progress, the feeling was good.” It seems that Meier could unsettle anything. Exchange rumors? Injuries? No matter.
Special contract situations? Also.
sid Meier’s first, for young players-standardised NHL contract expires in the summer, for the first time ever he will be to Haggle a pay raise involved. How well he plays will determine whether he will earn next season, two, five or even six million US dollars. The can inhibit. Not Meier. Clearly he had in mind, he says. “I still want to have Fun. And if I win, the team help, then the proper contract is to come, because I am confident.”
The Karlsson effect
Meier helps the team, and how! But the team also helps Meier. The San Jose Sharks, already an established top team, strengthened 2018 so good that the expectations have become even greater.
A rare image: Timo Meier’s first fist fight in a NHL Match, on may 18. December 2018 against Minnesota.
And the Sharks came clear at the beginning of the season, not always, you are advised now, right in the roles. “All must pull on the same sweater, which is a very a lot of Talent in the Team,” says Meier. Meanwhile, the new players had to the Team: “There are no more excuses.”
the Integration Karlssons is a challenge. The Swede plays with such a high intelligence that he is for opponents as fellow players to be highly unpredictable. Also, Meier found himself in situations, as it Karlsson-passports took the puck past him rustled.
“Karlsson is the one who makes things that others can’t,” says Meier. He compares him with Joe Thornton, another highly talented players: “If you stand with such players on the ice and carry the Puck, you will learn: stick always on the ice!” Meier has shown to be capable of learning.
No Believe in luck and bad luck
looseness, the ability to learn and, first of all, self-confidence. This is mentioned to Meier, again and again, it is almost his Religion: “It does for me, not only at the gates, shoot a roll. It helps me even at the mere ice-skating.”
don’t believe What Meier, luck and bad luck: “I know what a huge sacrifice I provided, what kind of work I have invested. And my personality allows me never to be satisfied with me.” Self-happy on the rebound, these “lucky bounces”, of which he is currently benefiting, no doubt, would have to be developed, Meier explains.
statisticians may say the opposite, at first glance, you’d be right: 17 percent of Meier’s shots land so far in the gate. Last season there were 10, an average value in the year prior to that frightening depth of 3.5.
The Thesis of the opponent
Logan Couture, line-mate and the only Sharks striker with more Skorerpunkten as Meier, knows the reason: “Timo shot earlier from anywhere, even from behind the goal line, and destroyed so often throughout the game. Today, he knows how he can use the players better.” Meier does not bother this Thesis is: “He’s right!”
A plausible explanation of the Swiss but of Europe: “I was in the fourth line, had no Top players came next to me, to eight to nine minutes of ice time. I wanted to make the Best of it, in any Shift to a goal was my goal. I forced about a lot of things.”
The looseness was Meier still a stranger – what a contrast to today: “Today I play twice as much, with each in-use with loose thoughts on the ice and know that I will get enough opportunities.” (Editorial Tamedia)
Created: 20.12.2018, 11:33 PM
