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Mario Ferraro
San Jose Sharks Defense
Twenty-one minutes a night on the worst club in the league, a minus-25, and a career minus-120.
| 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 | SJS | 78 | 5 | 12 | 17 | -25 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 79 | 6.3 | 21:24 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 408 | 17 | 74 | 91 | -120 | 181 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 439 | 3.9 | 21:17 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 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
5 goals and 12 assists in 78 games — 17 points at 21:24 a night, the largest assignment on the club, minus-25, with 53 penalty minutes.
46.5 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 21st percentile, across 1,415 minutes. His ice went 49-76 against an expectation of 54.94-63.22 — seven goals of scoring missing and eleven conceded above expectation, which is mostly the goaltending.
The Finesse Game
79 attempts in 78 games at a median of 55 feet with 74 per cent from beyond 40 and 7 per cent from inside 20. He does not shoot and 5 goals is a career high.
The first pass is the puck game and under a heavy forecheck it becomes the chip off the wall. 12 assists is what a defensive defenceman produces on a club that scored 210 goals.
The Physical Game
5-11 and 200 and he plays a great deal larger. He blocks shots at a rate among the highest in the league, he finishes every check, and he clears his crease against men who outweigh him considerably.
53 penalty minutes in 78 games. He does not back out of anything and a share of the total is the answer to something done to a teammate.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick in 2017 out of Massachusetts, and 408 games with a career minus-120 — one of the largest in the league and a fact about six seasons in San Jose rather than about him.
He is 27, he has been the club’s most-used defenceman for four years, and he has played every one of them on hockey teams that finished near the bottom of the league.
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
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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.
- durable· was available
78 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“**He blocks shots at a rate among the highest in the league**, he finishes every check, and he clears his crease against men who outweigh him considerably.”
“**He blocks shots at a rate among the highest in the league**, he finishes every check, and he clears his crease against men who outweigh him considerably.”
“**He blocks shots at a rate among the highest in the league**, he finishes every check, and he clears his crease against men who outweigh him considerably.”
“He does not back out of anything and a share of the total is the answer to something done to a teammate.”
“The first pass is the puck game and under a heavy forecheck it becomes the chip off the wall.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,415 minutes
- Expected goals
- 46.5%
- 23rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 47%
- 25th 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: 49 for, 76 against. Expected: 54.9 and 63.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 19 points of one another. 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.
Both bars are percentiles among the 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 71 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, 2024-25 · 78 games
- Top speed
- 22.4 mph
- 77th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.74 a game
- Distance
- 2.93 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 94.6 mph
- 76th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 89.7
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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 1415 minutes at five-on-five
- Jan Ruttaoff the roster18%
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, 2024-25
- The club
- SJS took 44.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 46.5% — 2.3 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,415 minutes at five-on-five — 96th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timothy Liljegren | 47.6% | 45.7% | 47.1% |
| Tyler Toffoli | 47.5% | 46.1% | 49.6% |
| William Eklund | 49.7% | 45.3% | 50.1% |
47.6% together, 45.7% for him apart and 47.1% for Liljegren apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
124 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 29 feet. 8% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 74% from beyond forty.