Saginaw Spirit select exceptional status player Michael Misa with first pick in 2022 OHL Draft

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The Saginaw Spirit have selected exceptional status player Michael Misa as the first overall pick in the 2022 OHL Draft, the team announced Thursday. Misa becomes the fifth exceptional status player to be selected first in the OHL Draft, joining John Tavares, Aaron Ekblad, Connor McDavid and Shane Wright. Sean Day is the only other player to be granted exceptional status to the OHL, but was selected fourth overall in 2013. “It is an honour to be selected by the Saginaw Spirit with the first overall pick in the Ontario Hockey League Priority Selection,” said Misa via a press release from the team. On April 14, the 15-year-old was granted exceptional status to enter the OHL draft, which "is granted to a player whose qualities not only on the ice, but as a person, deem the player deserving of the rare privilege of participating in the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) at an early age," according to the CHL....

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