Michael Misa

19 years old, and 62 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI
2025-26	SJS	45	9	12	21	-2	10	2	0	1	58	15.5	12:49
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	45	9	12	21	-2	10	2	0	1	58	15.5	12:49

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.

Last Season

9 goals and 12 assists in 45 games — 21 points, minus-2, at 12:49 a night with 10 penalty minutes. His first professional season.

He turned 19 in February.

The Finesse Game

The shot chart is the best on the club. 62 per cent of his unblocked attempts came from inside 20 feet with a median of 16, and only 9 per cent from beyond 40.

That is a 19-year-old who already knows where goals come from, which is the part that usually takes 3 years. 9 goals from 82 tries.

12 assists in 13 minutes a night is a fair rate, and the vision was the reason he went 2nd overall.

The Physical Game

6-1, 185, and slight. 10 penalty minutes in 45 games.

He is a teenager among men and it shows on the wall and in front of the net. The skating is genuinely good and it is what keeps him out of trouble.

The Intangibles

48.5 per cent of the expected goals, 42nd percentile, and 49.7 per cent of the shot attempts, 54th, across 530 minutes.

Those are the best possession figures of any San Jose forward — better than Celebrini’s, better than Smith’s — in a sheltered role and a small sample, and both of those caveats matter.

5 points in his last 10. He is 19, the second pick in 2025, and the third top-5 selection San Jose has turned into a regular in 3 drafts.

What kind of player

The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.

measuredcomputed here from the season's own data

Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.

slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
72.0% of his attempts in the slot, 98th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 530 minutes

Expected goals: 48.5%; 42nd pct
Shot attempts: 49.7%; 54th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 25 for, 26 against. Expected: 21.6 and 22.9.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

78th

Numbers

42nd

The report ranks him 36 points above where the numbers do. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.

Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 77 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2025-26 · 45 games

Top speed: 22.8 mph; 76th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 2.27 a game
Distance: 2.17 miles a game
Hardest shot: 86.3 mph; 59th pct

A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 2 goals, 3 assists, 17 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 530 minutes at five-on-five

Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.

Why the numbers land there

Five-on-five, 2025-26

The club: SJS took 47.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.5% — 1.1 above the club he did it on.
The role: 530 minutes at five-on-five — 20th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Tyler Toffoli	50.3%	47.0%	48.1%
William Eklund	50.6%	46.9%	49.5%
Mario Ferraro	45.7%	50.0%	46.9%

50.3% together, 47.0% for him apart and 48.1% for Toffoli apart. He was worse away from Toffoli, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Toffoli did.

Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.

Where he shoots from

goal on goal missed

82 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 9 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 62% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.