{"id":86953,"date":"2025-12-09T01:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T01:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/86953\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T01:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T01:16:08","slug":"san-jose-sharks-prospects-michael-misa-josh-ravensbergen-on-exclusive-list-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/86953\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks prospects Michael Misa, Josh Ravensbergen on exclusive list"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN JOSE \u2014 Center Michael Misa<\/a> and goalie Josh Ravensbergen <\/a>were two of the 27 players named Monday to Canada\u2019s National Junior Team training camp roster,<\/a> giving two more San Jose Sharks prospects the opportunity to play for their respective countries at the upcoming IIHF World Junior Championships.<\/p>\n

The 18-year-old Misa, taken second overall by the Sharks at the NHL Draft in June, was one of 15 forwards invited to the camp, which will run from Dec. 12-22<\/a> in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Ravensbergen, who was taken 30th overall<\/a> in June and turned 19 in November, is one of three goalies on the camp roster.<\/p>\n

Barring injuries or other additions, both Misa and Ravensbergen figure to be with the Canadian team on Dec. 26 when the tournament begins in Minnesota. Each country is allowed to bring up to 22 skaters,<\/a> which historically has meant 14 forwards and eight defensemen, and three goalies.<\/p>\n

Misa, an Oakville, Ontario native, had three points in seven games with the Sharks this season before he sustained a right ankle sprain<\/a> on Nov. 5 during a morning skate in Seattle. But he progressed from the injury in recent weeks, was placed on long-term injured reserve last week, and is now on a conditioning assignment with the San Jose Barracuda of the AHL.<\/p>\n

Misa had an assist in the Barracuda\u2019s 4-3 overtime win<\/a> over the Tucson Roadrunners on Friday and was held scoreless in San Jose\u2019s 6-2 loss in the rematch on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a competition against (Misa\u2019s) peers,\u201d Todd Marchant, the Sharks\u2019 director of player development, told Bay Area News Group on Monday. \u201cSo the expectation is for him to be able to show what he\u2019s capable of doing at that level. We\u2019ve obviously seen him play some games in the NHL this year and some games in the American League as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all part of the development process. No two paths are the same, and Michael will take his own path as to what\u2019s the next step for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ravensbergen, who is from North Vancouver, B.C., was named the Western Hockey League\u2019s Goalie of the Month for November after he won eight of 10 starts and posted a .940 save percentage with the Prince George Cougars. Entering this week, Ravensbergen led the WHL with 16 wins and was fourth with a .921 save percentage.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is super special to get that call,\u201d Ravensbergen said Monday via the Cougars\u2019 website.<\/a> \u201cI\u2019m really excited to go, put my best foot forward, and I can\u2019t wait.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ravensbergen didn\u2019t play any preseason games with the Sharks in training camp, but impressed at the team\u2019s development camp this summer and the rookie camp in September.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been great,\u201d Evgeni Nabokov, the Sharks\u2019 director of goaltending, told Bay Area News Group on Monday. \u201cHe\u2019s very athletic \u2014 we don\u2019t want to take this away from him \u2014 and he just reads the play really well. He\u2019s doing a really good job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other Sharks prospects could join Misa and Ravensbergen in the best-on-best under-20 tournament, including center Cole McKinney, a 2025 second-round pick who was named to the U.S. National Junior Team\u2019s preliminary roster<\/a>\u00a0on Dec. 1.\u00a0McKinney,\u00a0taken 53rd overall,<\/a>\u00a0has 11 points in 20 games as a freshman at Michigan.<\/p>\n

Another prospect, goalie\u00a0Christian Kirsch, has been named to Switzerland\u2019s World Junior team, and the Sharks organization expects defenseman Leo Sahlin Wallenius to be on Sweden\u2019s roster.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great to see these kids having the success they are,\u201d Marchant said.<\/p>\n

Sharks defenseman Sam Dickinson was not on Hockey Canada\u2019s World Juniors training camp roster, but for the next two weeks, the governing body is leaving spots open on the team for players who are now in the NHL.<\/p>\n

The Sharks had to give permission for their players to take part in Canada\u2019s camp, and as of late last week, were undecided on whether to loan the 19-year-old Dickinson, who has played in 23 of the Sharks\u2019 30 games this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs of right now, and for the next little bit, I\u2019m worried about playing (in the NHL) and being in the Sharks\u2019 lineup and doing what I can to help win here,\u201d Dickinson said on Dec. 3. \u201cBut it\u2019s a win-win. Playing in the NHL or competing for a gold medal, it\u2019d be great either way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sharks management will have to decide what to do with Dickinson going forward, if they haven\u2019t already.<\/p>\n

The Canadian World Junior team is coached by Dale Hunter, Dickinson\u2019s coach with the London Knights from 2022 to 2025. Mark Hunter, the Knights\u2019 general manager, is part of Canada\u2019s management group.<\/p>\n

\u201cEarly on, I thought that Sam didn\u2019t have the success, maybe instantly, that he wanted to have,\u201d Marchant said. \u201cThe game is fast, it\u2019s big, it\u2019s physical. But you look at his makeup, he is a big, strong kid, and it took him a little time to get to that point.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s still young mistakes. You watch (Sunday\u2019s game in Carolina). But then sometimes he makes really great plays where he breaks a play up, and then he jumps up into the play and makes it an odd-man rush.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before the start of the World Juniors tournament, the Canadian junior team will play Sweden in exhibition games on Dec. 17 and 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2014 Center Michael Misa and goalie Josh Ravensbergen were two of the 27 players named Monday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[48534,3259,88,90,89,98,39274],"class_list":["post-86953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-hockey-canada","tag-michael-misa","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-world-juniors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86953","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=86953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}