The San Jose Sharks introduced at this time that the membership has acquired defenseman Timothy Liljegren from the Toronto Maple Leafs in trade for defenseman Matt Benning, a 2025 conditional third-round choice, and San Jose’s 2026 sixth-round choice. Toronto will obtain the higher (earlier) third-round choice that San Jose at present owns.
🔁 TRADE ALERT
The #SJSharks have acquired Timothy Liljegren from the Maple Leafs.
— San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) October 30, 2024
Liljegren, 25, has appeared in a single recreation to date within the 2024-25 season. Final season, he set a single-season greatest in assists (20) and common time-on-ice (19:40) and tied a career-high in factors (23) with the Maple Leafs. He completed fourth on the workforce in blocked photographs (116), and ranked eighth in power-play time-on-ice (92:34). All through his NHL profession, he has appeared in 197 NHL video games, all with Toronto, and registered 65 factors (14 targets, 51 assists) with a plus-38 score.
Professionally, Liljegren has additionally appeared with Toronto’s American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Toronto Marlies, over components of 4 seasons, recording 74 factors (11 targets, 63 assists) in 150 AHL video games. He helped the Marlies win the Calder Cup in 2018 after recording 4 assists in 20 postseason video games.
Benning, who has no factors in seven video games this season, comes from a household of NHL defensemen. His father, Brian, performed for 5 groups, together with the Oilers, and his uncle is former Vancouver Canucks common supervisor Jim Benning, who performed for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Canucks. His greatest season got here with the Sharks through the 2022-23 season, when he posted 24 factors in 77 video games.
