{"id":146927,"date":"2025-09-16T08:02:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T08:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/146927\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T08:02:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T08:02:15","slug":"what-did-nhl-scouts-think-of-misas-rookie-faceoff-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/146927\/","title":{"rendered":"What Did NHL Scouts Think of Misa&#8217;s Rookie Faceoff Performance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NHL scouts aren\u2019t sure how good that Michael Misa will be in his rookie season. But after watching the San Jose Sharks\u2019 2025 No. 2 pick at the Rookie Faceoff, they\u2019re pretty sure that Misa has a bright NHL future.<\/p>\n<p>Three scouts, none with the Sharks, spoke with San Jose Hockey Now about Misa\u2019s performance at Rookie Faceoff. The 6-foot-1 centerman had one goal and four assists in just two games, as the San Jose Sharks swept the Rookie Faceoff for a second-straight September.<\/p>\n<p>So why are these scouts more certain about Misa\u2019s long-term future than what he does in his 18-year-old campaign?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLots of poise with the puck. Sees plays at elite level,\u201d Scout #1 said. \u201cHis body control and puck control are high-end. Very talented.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scout #2 echoed that, noting that these are trademarks of some of the best players in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmart, will be a real good player for a long time,\u201d Scout #3 said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NHL scouts aren\u2019t sure how good that Michael Misa will be in his rookie season. But after watching&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,952,25924,25925,575,99376,7527,58706,85,10221,9855],"class_list":{"0":"post-146927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-featured","11":"tag-macklin-celebrini","12":"tag-michael-misa","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-rookie-faceoff","15":"tag-san-jose-sharks","16":"tag-scouts","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-will-smith","19":"tag-william-eklund"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}