Michael Misa finishes the 2026-27 regular season with fewer than 60 points. Scored off his official NHL regular-season point total for the season, from any single source that carries it: 59 or fewer is a hit, 60 or more is a miss. Points for any club count, not only San Jose, so a trade does not make the row unresolvable. Misa is the single largest rate increase asked of any returning player on the board this piece examines, from 0.47 points per game as a rookie to 0.71.
Kiefer Sherwood averages under 1:45 a night on the power play across San Jose's first 20 games of 2026-27.
Alexander Wennberg finishes the 2026-27 regular season with more power-play points than Michael Misa.
Collin Graf is not among San Jose's top eight forwards in total power-play time on ice across the club's first 20 regular-season games of 2026-27.
Alexander Wennberg scored 55 points in 80 games last season and averaged 20:27 a night. Three minutes twenty of that was power play, second on the whole roster behind Macklin Celebrini, and two minutes eight was penalty kill. The demotion every projection has him taking is an even-strength demotion, and both published power-play projections keep him on the first unit. The number that threatens the 55 is a 19.4 percent shooting rate against a career mark of 11.4 across 869 games.

Where Michael Misa actually stands in his draft class

Michael Misa and the second line we already promised him

The 2025-26 Sharks ran out a dozen different forward combinations around Michael Misa. Nine games and sixty-seven minutes of one specific configuration produced the best per-minute
