{"id":774595,"date":"2026-07-02T03:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/774595\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T03:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:04:11","slug":"jets-sign-defenceman-mario-ferraro-to-a-three-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/774595\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets sign defenceman Mario Ferraro to a three-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG,\u00a0July 1, 2026\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Winnipeg Jets\u00a0Hockey Club announced today\u00a0the team\u00a0agreed to terms with\u00a0defenceman\u00a0Mario Ferraro\u00a0on a\u00a0three-year contract\u00a0with an average annual value\u00a0of $4,000,000.<\/p>\n<p>Ferraro, 27,\u00a0recorded 23 points (7G, 16A) and 35 penalty minutes\u00a0while playing in all\u00a082 games for the San Jose Sharks in 2025-26. The Toronto, Ont. native\u00a0led the Sharks in\u00a0blocked shots (150), while his 21:02 time-on-ice per game was third on the\u00a0team.\u00a0Ferraro\u2019s\u00a0277:11\u00a0shorthanded time-on-ice\u00a0also led the Sharks\u00a0and\u00a0ranked third in the NHL and\u00a0his\u00a0shorthanded time-on-ice per game (3:23)\u00a0was\u00a0the most on the team and\u00a0fourth-highest in the league\u00a0last season.<\/p>\n<p>Ferraro, a second-round pick (49th\u00a0overall) by\u00a0San Jose in the 2017 NHL Draft,\u00a0has played 490 career NHL games\u00a0for the Sharks and posted 114 points (24G, 90A) and 216 PIMs.<\/p>\n<p>Internationally, Ferraro\u00a0posted two assists in ten games to help Canada win the\u00a0gold medal\u00a0at the 2021 World Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Mario Ferraro<\/p>\n<p>Defence<\/p>\n<p>Born\u00a0Sept.\u00a017,\u00a01998\u00a0\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0Toronto, Ont.<\/p>\n<p>Height\u00a05.11\u00a0&#8212; Weight\u00a0200\u00a0&#8212; Shoots\u00a0L<\/p>\n<p>-#####-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG,\u00a0July 1, 2026\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Winnipeg Jets\u00a0Hockey Club announced today\u00a0the team\u00a0agreed to terms with\u00a0defenceman\u00a0Mario Ferraro\u00a0on a\u00a0three-year contract\u00a0with an average annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-774595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}