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Mario Ferraro
San Jose Sharks Defense
A career minus-95 in 330 games, the second-worst rate of anybody in this edition with two hundred of them.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | SJS | 61 | 2 | 9 | 11 | -15 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 63 | 3.2 | 15:53 |
| 2020-21 | SJS | 56 | 1 | 16 | 17 | -6 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 1.7 | 22:26 |
| 2021-22 | SJS | 63 | 2 | 12 | 14 | -5 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 49 | 4.1 | 23:00 |
| 2022-23 | SJS | 72 | 4 | 7 | 11 | -31 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 66 | 6.1 | 21:36 |
| 2023-24 | SJS | 78 | 3 | 18 | 21 | -38 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 124 | 2.4 | 22:52 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 330 | 12 | 62 | 74 | -95 | 128 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 360 | 3.3 | 21:15 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
78 games, 3 goals and 18 assists for 21 points, none on the power play, 36 penalty minutes, 22:52 a night and minus-38. He took 43.3 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,480 minutes, the 19th percentile, and his ice went 53-92 against an expectation of 54.35-71.10.
A goal of finishing below what the chances were worth and twenty-one goals of goaltending below them — the worst such figure on the club. Ninety-two goals against in 1,480 minutes of five-on-five hockey is the number that defines this season.
The Finesse Game
162 attempts at a median of 54 feet with 77 per cent of them from beyond forty and 9 per cent from inside twenty, 117 of those on goal, converted at 2.4 per cent against a career 3.33 across 360 shots.
Zero power-play goals in 330 career games and 12 goals in total. There is no offence here at all; 62 career assists is the outlet pass and nothing else, and the club has never asked him for anything but the defensive end.
The Physical Game
He is 5-11 and 200 and took 36 penalty minutes.
128 career penalty minutes in 330 games. He is a small, hard defenceman who defends by skating and finishing checks, and at 22:52 a night against the other club’s best line he does it more often than anybody in San Jose.
The Intangibles
Forty-ninth overall in 2017 by San Jose, five seasons, one organisation, and 74 points in 330 games.
A career minus-95 in 330 games — the second-worst rate of anybody in this edition with two hundred games. He has taken the hardest minutes on a bad club for five straight seasons and there is no version of that record that flatters him.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,480 minutes
- Expected goals
- 43.3%
- 12th pct
- Shot attempts
- 44.8%
- 16th pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 53 for, 92 against. Expected: 54.4 and 71.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 50 points above where the numbers do. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason. 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 72 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.
Usual linemates
2023-24 · 1480 minutes at five-on-five
- Jan Rutta15%
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, 2023-24
- The club
- SJS took 40.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 43.3% — 2.5 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,480 minutes at five-on-five — 97th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kyle Burroughs | 47.1% | 41.2% | 41.8% |
| Fabian Zetterlund | 43.3% | 43.3% | 40.9% |
| William Eklund | 47.1% | 41.7% | 40.3% |
47.1% together, 41.2% for him apart and 41.8% for Burroughs apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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
162 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 42 feet. 9% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 77% from beyond forty.