Without injured forward, Sharks’ first-round picks shine in huge comeback win
Forward Michael Misa and defenseman Sam Dickinson, along with a few other San Jose Sharks prospects, will be carrying some momentum into the team’s main training camp next week.
Misa and Dickinson, first-round draft picks by San Jose, both had four points Saturday as the Sharks rallied from a four-goal deficit to earn an 8-5 win over the Los Angeles Kings in their second and final game of the Golden State Rookie Faceoff in Irvine. The Sharks also beat the Anaheim Ducks 6-3 on Friday.
San Jose trailed the Kings 4-0 less than 16 minutes into the first period, but Kasper Halttunen, Filip Bystedt, and Dickinson scored in the second to get the Sharks within one. Collin Graf then scored twice in a span of 2:05 to give San Jose the lead before Misa scored an insurance goal, his first in teal, with 8:04 to go.
Misa was taken second overall at the NHL Draft in June and signed his entry-level contract earlier this week. Dickinson was selected 11th overall by the Sharks in 2024. Both players are expected to receive ample opportunity to make the Sharks’ 23-man roster to begin the regular season next month.
Mattias Havelid and Carson Wetsch also scored on Saturday for the Sharks, which began the event at Fivepoint Arena on Friday with a fight-filled win over the Ducks, a game marred by an injury in the third period to forward Cam Lund.
With just over six minutes left in regulation time, Lund headed up ice in the Sharks’ zone and was about to receive a centering pass from Bystedt when a high hit from Ducks defenseman Will Francis laid him out.
Lund, according to the Sharks, is considered day-to-day with an upper-body injury, leaving his status for the start of camp next week in question.
After the hit, defenseman Braden Hache, who split time between Barracuda of the AHL and Wichita of the ECHL last season, stepped in and fought Francis. The scrap was one of five between the Ducks and Sharks as the game featured a combined 76 penalty minutes.
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Before his injury, Lund, 21, had scored two goals. Lund was a second-round pick by the Sharks in 2022 and, after a three-year career at Northeastern, signed an entry-level contract and turned pro in March. In 11 games with the Sharks last season, he had two goals and one assist.
Without Lund, the Sharks dressed 11 forwards and seven defensemen against the Kings, who took a 4-0 lead by the 15:04 mark of the first period.
Halttunen then scored a power play goal off an assist from Misa with 10:41 left in the second, and Bystedt scored 22 seconds later off a pass from Wetsch to cut the Kings’ lead to two. Dickinson then scored a power-play goal, assisted by Graf, with six seconds left in the second period to draw the Sharks within one goal.
The Sharks returned to San Jose after the game and began preparations for the main training camp. San Jose’s first preseason game is next Sunday at home against the Vegas Golden Knights.
Six Sharks players had two points in Friday’s victory, with Quentin Musty, Luca Cagnoni, and Graf each with a goal and an assist, and Bystedt and Halttunen both with two assists.
Misa, taken second overall by the Sharks in June’s NHL Draft, who just signed his entry-level contract, had an assist in Friday’s win. Goalie Josh Ravensbergen, taken 30th overall by San Jose in June, stopped 16 of 19 shots.