Tim Schaller
Induction Year: 2025
Birthday: November 16, 1990
City/Town: Merrimack, NH
A native of Merrimack, NH, Tim played 276 games in the NHL gathering 57 points on 29 goals and 28 assists before retiring from the league in September 2023. Described as a “big center with defensive skills that teams like”, he appeared with the Buffalo Sabres, Boston Bruins, Vancouver Canucks and Los Angeles Kings during his ten-year pro career.
Tim’s AHL travels took him to Rochester, Wilkes-Barre, Bakersfield and Milwaukee. In his earlier days, Tim played high school hockey and was Rookie of the Year in his hometown of Merrimack before joining the New England Junior Huskies in the Eastern Junior Hockey League.
Tim attended Providence College in 2009-10 and was co-recipient of the Rev. Herman Schneider Most Valuable Freshman Award. In 2011-12, Tim won the Rob Gaudreau Award for most goals scored and was a Walter Brown Award semi-finalist as the best American-born hockey player in New England. By his senior year, Tim was co-captain of the Friars where he recorded a career high 23 points in 38 games to steer the team to the 2013 Hockey East playoffs. Tim was named Hockey East’s Defensive Forward of the Year.
Tim was invited to the Chicago Blackhawks NHL Prospect Camp and to the Calgary Flames 2012 Development camp on an Amateur Try-out agreement. After leaving Providence College in 2013, the Buffalo Sabres signed Tim to a two-year entry level contract and he played the entire 72 game season with the Sabres AHL affiliate in Rochester. Tim’s NHL debut came in November 2014 in a 4 -3 Buffalo win over the Montreal Canadiens and he scored his first NHL goal a few weeks later in a 4 -3 loss to the Bruins.
Tim signed with Boston in 2016 and stayed until July 2018 before moving to the Vancouver Canucks on a
two-year contract. In 2020, Tim joined the roster of the Los Angeles Kings in a trade. Entering the pandemic-delayed season, he was re-assigned to the Pittsburgh Penguins AHL affiliate in Wilkes-Barre. As a free-agent, he agreed to move to the Edmonton Oilers AHL team in Bakersfield, California then moved on to the Milwaukee Admirals, the primary affiliate of the Nashville Predators.
While with the Bruins, Tim and his brother David founded the Timmyheads Foundation which directs all
proceeds to the Jimmy Fund and Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Tim donated bone marrow to David in 2006.