Word in the Toronto Marlies dressing room has it that Timothy Liljegren isn’t as funny as he thinks he is.



“Ha!” Andreas Johnsson shouted outside the Marlies’ dressing room at Ricoh Coliseum on Friday afternoon when asked about his youngest teammate’s sense of humour.



“He tries to make jokes and not all of them go home. In Sweden, you always say the people from Gothenburg are always the ones with the dry jokes and I ask him if he has any relatives from Gothenburg and he says no but at least his jokes seems like he does.”



Liljegren, 18, is the youngest defenceman in the AHL. There aren’t even any 19-year-old defencemen in the league. Even on a young Marlies team, his 1999 birth year leaps off the roster sheet. He’s a full two years younger than the AHL’s next youngest defencemen — Mitch Vande Sompel (New York Islanders) and Ethan Bear (Edmonton Oilers). When he goes out for dinner with his...