- Position
- C
- Pool rank
- No. 8
- Wheeler top 100
- HM
- Projected
- AHL, Barracuda
- Pieces here
- 21
On the record
Called Shots →Neither Filip Bystedt nor Quentin Musty is on San Jose's active roster for the Sharks' 2026-27 regular-season opener against Florida on October 1, 2026. Scored off the roster San Jose dresses and reports for that game: if either man appears in the box score, or is listed on the club's active roster rather than as a healthy scratch sent to the AHL, the call is a miss. Both absent is a hit. If the opener is postponed or the season does not begin on schedule, the row resolves against San Jose's first regular-season game actually played.
Filip Bystedt plays 20 or fewer NHL regular-season games in 2026-27. Scored off his official NHL regular-season games-played total for the season, from any single source that carries it: 20 or fewer is a hit, 21 or more is a miss. Zero games counts as a hit. Games for any club count, not only San Jose, so a trade does not make the row unresolvable.
At least one San Jose player who has never appeared in an NHL regular-season game dresses for all four of the Sharks' 2026-27 preseason games.
Written about him
San Jose Drew Its Rookie Line At One Hundred Games And Then Crossed It Once
San Jose released its 2026 Rookie Faceoff roster on September 1: 14 forwards, nine defensemen, three goaltenders. Curtis Pashelka of the Mercury News reports the club's participation guideline is 100 or fewer combined NHL and AHL regular-season games, and that Luca Cagnoni is over it at 140. Sorted by that number, 14 of the 26 named have never played a professional regular-season game, and only Filip Bystedt at 123 is above the line. Sam Dickinson is under it at 72 and is not going either. Five of the nine defensemen invited shoot right, on a club whose established blue line carries two right shots.
Filip Bystedt Fixed His Faceoffs For A Job Two Sharks Already Hold
Filip Bystedt led the San Jose Barracuda with 60 points in 65 games last season, got his faceoff percentage above 50 for the first time, and played zero NHL games. The two Sharks centers who also win more than half their draws are the two already signed to play the fourth line. He is the first center San Jose calls when the season bites, and the honest worst case is not that he plays badly. It is that nobody finds out.
San Jose Called Up Its Forwards In A Different Order Than The Barracuda Scored Them
Nine forwards signed for 2026-27 played for the San Jose Barracuda last season. Ranked by points per game, the top of that list played zero NHL games and the bottom two played 62 of the group's 142. The jobs at the bottom of San Jose's lineup are ten-minute checking jobs, and four veterans are signed to do them.
Bystedt and Musty: the NHL comps, and why two good prospects can't get in the lineup
Bystedt and Musty: the comps, and the conundrum
Two good problems named Bystedt and Musty
The Sharks spent four years with a forward cupboard so empty it echoed. They fixed it so thoroughly that two former first-round picks just had excellent seasons and could not find