DETROIT \u2014 The San Jose Sharks have cleared the way for Michael Misa.<\/p>\n
The Sharks, at the maximum 50 NHL contracts, had to get rid of a contract to fit in the 2025 No. 2 pick\u2019s contract.<\/p>\n
They did that, trading prospect Kyle Masters, who\u2019s played all season in the ECHL, and his NHL contract, to the Carolina Hurricanes. The San Jose Sharks added a 2026 fourth-round pick to sweeten the pot, while the Canes returned a 2027 fifth.<\/p>\n
Misa has played nine NHL games, and when he plays his 10th on Friday night against the Detroit Red Wings, the first year of his entry-level contract will burn, and count against the maximum 50.<\/p>\n
So the San Jose Sharks will be back to 50 contracts, but now, it\u2019s Misa\u2019s and not Masters\u2019s.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he\u2019s gotten better every period. That\u2019s a big positive,\u201d Warsofsky said on Friday of Misa\u2019s first two games back from World Juniors. \u201cThe pace of his game is getting better. He\u2019s in good spots on breakouts. There\u2019s some things defensively he needs to work on. But the more he gets comfortable with the pace, I think the more we\u2019ll see the offensive side of his game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT \u2014 The San Jose Sharks have cleared the way for Michael Misa. The Sharks, at the maximum…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2066,21148,93,10427,3259,88,90,89,98,3236],"class_list":["post-136860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-contracts","tag-featured","tag-kyle-masters","tag-michael-misa","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}