2025 NHL Draft Media Availability – Michael Misa (2nd Overall, San Jose Sharks)

mike how does it feel
feels unbelievable um you know from the second i heard my name called till now it’s just excitement so i’m i’m really grateful something you’ve talked about for a little bit here with the possibility of continuing to play with igor how exciting is that for you
yeah it’s it’s awesome um you know i had a great connection with him in sagena so um being able to you know hopefully do the same thing in san jose in the near future it’ be it’s pretty cool
the spirit organization just what have they meant to getting you to this moment they’ve meant everything you know my my last three years in in sagenol they’ve done so much for me um really top top uh class organization and i give a lot of credit to you know lz my coach dave drinkle our owners dick garber and craig oslin they uh they made my life you know feel at home there so i’m really grateful for that
what was it like to hear your name called
it was yeah it was awesome just a moment of relief um excitement you know um a little emotional with my family they they they’ve meant so much to me and supported me for so long so it’s it’s pretty cool how you look back on this experience as a whole
it’s been great like from when i got here wednesday till now it’s just it’s all you know taken in the moment only happens once so i’ve just been trying to enjoy it
what do you know from san jose
what’s that
what do you know from san jose
um there’s good weather there i know they they they got a great great team great young core you know coming up um i know they’re in a little bit of a rebuild situation now but um yeah nothing but good things to say after three year in junior hockey do you feel you’re ready for the next step yeah i mean my my goal next year is to play in the nhl um you know i got a big summer ahead of me um got to get stronger just you know help myself on and off the ice but yeah that’s my goal next year
when you look on yourself last year and see mlin celebr number one you’re here number two with the same team does that excite you to see that guy being a potential player that you’re going to play with
yeah i mean he’s he’s a heck of a player just being able to you know watch him this year learn stuff off his game and um you know i’m i’m really excited to meet him in the near future
mike what were your meetings like with mike and just the building up to this and the excitement around what the sharks are and just the core and now that you’re a piece of that how excited does that get you for not only just the team but your nhl career just with such an upand cominging team as well
yeah um you know at the coline i had a great great chat with them during my interview and then i i went out to dinner with them and it was such just a you know casual dinner not didn’t feel like an interview at all just just being myself it it was great
about that dinner could you draw a correlation between that and and them picking you did did you get a feeling that that would match up
yeah i you know i think i had yeah great conversations with them um nothing felt awkward at all it was just you know me being myself talking to them and i thought yeah they they thought pretty highly of me so it’s it’s pretty cool to you know see them get to draft me and you talked about obviously mlin the core that they’re building there the young core particularly now you joining that what what what are your feelings in terms of fitting into what they’re trying to build
yeah i mean i think for me to just help out in any way i can um you know just me being another young player to that that that group i you know i want to make an impact right away and yeah just try and help any way i can is playing with your brother next year off the table at this point
uh i i i don’t really know i mean my my goal is playing in the nhl so um that’s that’s kind of where where my head’s at right now
what was that like to follow the emotional reaction that man it’s it’s so like just i’m i’m really happy for him um you know he’s been through so much the last year year and a half and um you know he he he deserved that that number one and um you know couldn’t be happier for him
what is it like for you though to be number two you’re the number two pick in the nhl as well yeah i don’t know it’s it’s obviously cool and i know him well though so uh we’ll probably joke about it and whatnot but yeah he’s a great guy
you
oh for you yeah it’s it’s it’s unbelievable i mean um just yeah for san jose to recognize me as as this pick and um you know head over there it’s it’s going to be a great feeling for me
did you think you would be number when you came here tonight did you think it would be you
i really i didn’t have that like i knew there was a chance um you know one two or three i i wasn’t really too sure where it would end up but san jose is a great spot
did you not know until your name was announced that the you’d be going to the sharks
yeah no clue until they announced my name and then it was you know just excitement from there
and uh just looking back at the people who brought you here got you here you know just who comes to mind who who got you here your parents your family just who got you here to
mom dad brother like the main three i think of um then there’s so much just extra help outside the rank there’s too many people to name i can’t name them all but um you know then there’s like my agent dave gier just so many so many people and have have helped along this journey
in a couple of months you go to training camp why do you think you’re ready to to play in the nhl next year
um i mean i think that’s kind of for my game to decide i i got to you know prove myself but um you know i believe when i’m at my best i’m i’m making guys around me better i think i play with good offensive ability um so you know we’ll see what happens
curious coming to la
sorry coming to la and this this whole week what has it been like any anything wild happened that a little uh little off the cuff stuff
uh no not really it’s been pretty pretty low-key pretty casual yeah um just try to enjoy this last couple days
did you go anywhere specific though that uh from a tourist standpoint
i went to santa monica that was pretty cool um went on that uh merrygo round there or ferris wheel whatever um
yeah and that that was that was about it but yeah it was a fun time when there are comparisons to when there are comparisons of you and your game with john tvaris what do you make of those
that’s pretty incredible i mean he he’s one heck of a player so to be able to you know get compared to him it’s it’s pretty cool i mean um i think i i play like him in a way a bit just offensively like his puck protection his shot um you know i can see myself relating to him a little bit
you mentioned that your goal is to play in the nhl next year what do the next two months look like for you in terms of giving yourself the best chance to do that i guess
yeah i think just training you know making sure my body’s right um got a good condition cuz you got to be you know good condition to play in the nhl and um ultimately i think whatever does happen i’m i’m going to be ready for for main camp and yeah
mention you know you know a couple other guys in the church organization what have they told you about the pro-life what do you need to do to be successful at um yeah it’s a good question i i just it’s like your job basically the nhl is your job so you got to just the the the daily habits you have every day coming to the rink wanting to get better is is going to be you know huge for me staying staying longer just learning learning stuff off guys i think is going to definitely help me
is is is the college route a real question for you is it is it the nhl or the ohl for you next year from what you just your thought process is there right now my thought process is i i want to make san jose next year that that’s kind of where my head’s at
a lot of guys have special linings in their suit coats anything special for you this year
i had a couple pictures of myself um nothing too like fancy i like the logo that draft logo right there um but yeah it was it was pretty not too complicated
you look at social media at all where you’re here and you just see back and forth people speculating does that work what goes through your mind leading up to this when you see all this stuff on social media um yeah i mean the last couple days i haven’t looked at anything i mean just i’ve i’ve came here and just wanted to enjoy la um but yeah uh now i’m probably scared to go on social media right now i don’t know if i want to open my phone so probably keep it closed for a bit
is there anybody that maybe isn’t here or you know family member that a friend from home that you want to give a call and and talk to and and just tell them what happened and your feelings that maybe you know wouldn’t be here something that you just you want to think of that goes right to your mind at home
yeah um all like most like all my family and stuff is here um i think one person i call like a buddy nick sema my one of my teammates probably one of the first people i’m going to call just he’s he’s been there for me since my year year one in saga he’s like my best friend on the team so
michael you uh are popular fan pick so don’t worry about social media you’ll be fine when people aren’t there yeah uh wondering uh uh will you be uh ready healthy fully participating in development camp coming up here
yeah yeah that’s my plan um you know the last month and a half has been more of a you know trying to get my back healed up uh you know but i i’ i’ve been feeling great recently so yeah i’m looking i’m looking forward to def camp and are you going to uh plan or will you work number 77 with the sharks
yeah i mean if if i can that that’s that’s my goal
talk about it
yeah so yeah for sure mike what does it say about the ohl five of the top eight picks all guys you know and grew up with just how cool is it to see a whole bunch of guys doing well in this nhl
it’s just it says a lot about the ohl like you know they they produce good players um what was it five out of top eight yeah so it’s it’s pretty cool to see um and i know i know all of them so um i’m sure we’ll we’ll catch up after and talk about it

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