Timothy Steven Harrer (born May 10, 1957) is an American former ice hockey winger who played three games in the National Hockey League for the Calgary Flames during the 1982âÂÂ83 season.
Harrer was born in Bloomington, Minnesota to David and Nancy Harrer. Harrer played a variety of sports at Bloomington Lincoln High in football, baseball, and hockey; in the summer, he would shoot lead pucks at sheet of plywood. He played right wing for Minnesota Golden Gophers men's ice hockey team from 1976 to 1980 for head coach Herb Brooks (1976-1979) and Brad Buetow (1979-80). In his senior season, he scored 53 goals to set a new university record and is still the only Golden Gopher with a 50-goal season. In 2016, he was inducted into the University of Minnesota Gopher Sports Hall of Fame.
Harrer was among the dozens of players offered a try-out for the 1980 Winter Olympics for the United States men's hockey team alongside a handful of teammates from Minnesota and in the middle of his senior season he played in four games for Team USA in the buildup to the games before head coach Herb Brooks decided to cut him (Harrer went back to Minnesota to finish his senior season).
Harrer was drafted by the Atlanta Flames in the ninth round, 148th overall in the 1977 NHL Entry Draft and the Calgary Cowboys in the ninth round, 78th overall in the 1977 WHA Amateur Draft.
In the 2004 film Miracle, which tells the story of the "Miracle on Ice" game at the 1980 Winter Olympics, Adam Knight portrays Harrer.