In the 2015 NHL Draft, the San Jose Sharks picked Timo Meier in the first round, ninth overall. Coming into last season’s training camp, there were many predictions that Meier would make the opening night roster, until he got sick with mononucleosis during training camp.
When he returned, many of the predictions of Meier were not shown much in his first season. He spent a lot of time of the bottom two lines, in a mostly sheltered role. Even after scoring on the first shot of his first-ever NHL game, against the Montreal Canadiens’ Vezina-winning goaltender Carey Price, he only scored two other goals and finished his rookie season with 34 games and six points.