{"id":291052,"date":"2025-11-18T13:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T13:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/291052\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T13:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T13:22:12","slug":"sharks-michael-misa-not-close-to-returning-could-affect-canadian-junior-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/291052\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks&#8217; Michael Misa not close to returning, could affect Canadian junior team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/michael-misa\/7573b389-d401-4e8d-9feb-195f293092ec\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"7573b389-d401-4e8d-9feb-195f293092ec\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Michael Misa<\/a>&#8216;s potential status for the Canadian team at the world junior hockey championship remains very much up in the air.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/san-jose-sharks\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"san-jose-sharks\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> coach Ryan Warsofsky told reporters on Monday that Misa is behind fellow Sharks forward Jeff Skinner in his recovery from a lower-body injury. Skinner (lower-body injury), Warsofsky said, is about two weeks away from getting back on the ice.<\/p>\n<p>Team Canada is hoping to have all its players available for a training camp starting Dec. 12 in Niagara Falls, Ont., but Program of Excellence general manager Alan Millar has said there could be flexibility for NHL players.<\/p>\n<p>If Misa is healthy, the Sharks will have to decide whether to loan him to the national junior team.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old Misa has one goal and two assists in seven games for the Sharks this season. He was picked second overall by San Jose in this year&#8217;s NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Misa is one of nine players currently in the NHL eligible to play for Canada at the world junior championship, which starts Dec. 26 in Minnesota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Misa&#8216;s potential status for the Canadian team at the world junior hockey championship remains very much up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-291052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}