Mario Ferraro

Mario Ferraro
Date of birth	17th September 1998
place of birth	Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size	180 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	defender
number	# 38
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2017 , 2nd round, 49th position San Jose Sharks
Career stations
2014-2016	Toronto Patriots
2016-2017	Des Moines Buccaneers
2017-2019	University of Massachusetts Amherst
since 2019	San Jose Sharks

Mario Ferraro (born September 17, 1998 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League (NHL) since April 2019, where he plays the position of defender .

Career

Ferraro, who was born in the Canadian metropolis of Toronto in the province of Ontario , but grew up in King City , about 30 kilometers away , played in Ontario's lower-class junior leagues around Toronto until the summer of 2016. Between 2014 and 2016, the defender was active for the Toronto Patriots in the Ontario Junior Hockey League (OJHL). In his first year with the team, Ferraro won the league championship with the team. The second year in which the team missed the qualification for the playoffs and thus the title defense, he found himself after 40 scorer points in 51 games in the Second All-Prospect Team of the OJHL.

Although Ferraro had already been selected by the Barrie Colts in the Priority Selection of the Ontario Hockey League in 2014 , the defender decided to switch to the United States Hockey League in the summer of 2016 . In their entry draft , he was drawn by the Des Moines Buccaneers in the previous summer , for whom he went on the ice for one game year in the 2016/17 season. Once again, the defensive player collected over 40 points and at the end of the year was in both the All-Rookie Team and the First All-Star Team of the league. As a result, he was selected in the second round of the NHL Entry Draft 2017 in 49th place by the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Ferraro then enrolled at the University of Massachusetts Amherst , where he spent the next two years parallel to his studies for the university team Minutemen in the Hockey East , a division in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). After Ferraro made it into the Hockey East all-rookie team at the end of the 2017/18 season, he won the division's regular season title in 2019 . He was also part of the Third All-Star Team. By signing an NHL entry contract with the San Jose Sharks in April 2019, his college career ended prematurely with the entry into professionalism.

In the summer that followed, Ferraro earned a place in the Sharks' regular squad and made his debut in the NHL as one of three rookies at the start of the 2019/20 season .

Achievements and Awards

2015 OJHL Championship with the Toronto Patriots 2016 OJHL Second All-Prospect Team 2017 USHL All-Rookie Team

2017 USHL First All-Star Team 2018 Hockey East All-Rookie Team 2019 Hockey East Third All-Star Team

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2014/15	Toronto Patriots	OJHL		43	1	11	12	28		22nd	1	3	4th	16
2015/16	Toronto Patriots	OJHL		51	6th	34	40	46		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Des Moines Buccaneers	USHL		60	8th	33	41	42		3	0	0	0	0
2017/18	University of Massachusetts Amherst	NCAA		39	4th	19th	23	20th
2018/19	University of Massachusetts Amherst	NCAA		41	2	12	14th	23
2019/20	San Jose Sharks	NHL		61	2	9	11	30th		-	-	-	-	-
OJHL overall				94	7th	45	52	74		22nd	1	3	4th	16
NCAA overall				80	6th	31	37	43
NHL overall				61	2	9	11	30th		-	-	-	-	-

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

• Player biography on the San Jose Sharks website
• Mario Ferraro at eliteprospects.com (English)