St. Louis Blues Sign Landon Ferraro to One-Year Contract
The St. Louis Blues beefed up their forward depth in a major way on Friday, announcing the addition of Landon Ferraro on a two-way deal.
The St. Louis Blues announced on Friday afternoon that they’ve signed center Landon Ferraro to a one-year, two-way contract. The 24-year-old Ferraro, a 6-foot, 186-pounder, has played in 75 NHL games over three seasons for the Detroit Red Wings and Boston Bruins.
Ferraro’s greatest NHL exposure to date came this past season, when he suited up in a total of 68 games between Detroit and Boston. He played in 10 games, recording no points while accumulating seven penalty minutes and a minus-3 rating, with Detroit before being claimed on waivers by Boston on November 22. After joining the Bruins, Ferraro was more productive than he’d ever been in Detroit, collecting five goals and five assists over 58 games with the Bruins. He collected 20 penalty minutes and posted a minus-8 rating.
Seeing as he’s still so young (just a year older than Dmitrij Jaskin and Ty Rattie, who the Blues consider to be players on the rise), Ferraro probably still has a chance of becoming a long-term NHL contributor. Statistically, he was actually more productive than Magnus Paajarvi last season, so it should be interesting to see how seriously he’s considered for an NHL role this fall.
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The addition of Ferraro gives the Blues 13 forwards who played in 41 or more NHL games in 2015-16. When you consider that they’ll also (presumably) have Vladimir Sobotka, who’s spent the past two years in the KHL but was an established NHL contributor before his departure, and Rattie, who scored four goals in 13 NHL contests last season, it’s difficult to be concerned about the organization’s depth front this year. Obviously, they need to replace the production of David Backes and Troy Brouwer, but it’s probably not going to be a situation like last year where they’re having to sign guys like Martin Havlat off the street to get through the season.
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Assuming that he gets into an NHL game this year, Ferraro will be the next in a long line of second-generation Blues players. His father, Ray, finished up his career in St. Louis, playing in 15 regular season games (plus 10 playoff contests) at the end of the 2001-02 season.