RWC REPORT: Ferraro shakes off injury

By Matthew Wuest - RedWingsCentral.com / November 17, 2009

Landon Ferraro is slowly coming around.

The 18-year-old Red Deer Rebels forward has shaken off an early-season knee injury and has started putting up numbers again. In his past four games, he has two multi-point outings and a goal and four assists.

The mild turnaround comes after Ferraro missed 10 games early in the year with a knee injury and a nine-game goalless drought. Overall, he has two goals and six assists in 13 games in the Western Hockey League.

"It's good to have his leadership back, his spark and his energy," Jesse Wallin, the Rebels' head coach, told the Red Deer Advocate.

Ferraro is no stranger to putting up number. Last season, he led the Rebels with 37 goals among 55 points in 68 games, and most figured he'd be a safe bet to crack the 40-goal plateau had he been healthy all year.

Selected 32nd overall by the Red Wings in June's draft, Ferraro projects as a versatile second-line forward who can put the puck in the net.

NOTES: Defenseman Logan Pyett (Grand Rapids, AHL) had a good week and has a goal and five assists in 15 games ... Forward Stephen Johnston (Belleville, Ontario Hockey League) can't shake the injury bug, out with a shoulder injury and concussion in a pivotal contract year ... Forward Johan Ryno (AIK, Swedish Allsvenskan) continues his disappointing third season under contract, with just two goals and an assist in 14 games of second-tier action ... Defenseman Bryan Rufenach (Clarkson, NCAA) has a hyper-offensive knack and he's certainly putting his skills to good use, with two goals and six assists in 10 games thus far.

The following is an up-to-date statistical report for skaters:

NAME	TEAM	LEAGUE	GP	G	A	PTS	PIM
A H L
Cory Emmerton	Grand Rapids	AHL	14	4	5	9	2
Mattias Ritola	Grand Rapids	AHL	15	3	5	8	10
Jamie Tardif	Grand Rapids	AHL	15	5	2	7	13
Evan McGrath	Grand Rapids	AHL	15	3	4	7	4
Logan Pyett	Grand Rapids	AHL	15	1	5	6	6
Jakub Kindl	Grand Rapids	AHL	14	0	6	6	14
Jan Mursak	Grand Rapids	AHL	15	4	1	5	8
Dick Axelsson	Grand Rapids	AHL	12	2	3	5	6
Francis Pare	Grand Rapids	AHL	13	0	5	5	0
Tomas Tatar	Grand Rapids	AHL	10	1	2	3	0
Travis Ehrhardt	Grand Rapids	AHL	8	0	1	1	13
Sebastien Piche	Grand Rapids	AHL	6	0	0	0	4
Sergei Kolosov	Grand Rapids	AHL	14	0	0	0	0
S W E D E N
Joakim Andersson	Frolunda	SEL	19	3	3	6	22
Anton Axelsson	Timra	SEL	17	0	6	6	2
Jesper Samuelsson	Timra	SEL	12	0	1	1	6
Johan Ryno	AIK	SWE-2	14	2	1	3	8
Jesper Samuelsson	Sundsvall	SWE-2	7	1	2	3	12
Adam Almqvist	HV-71	SWE-J20	15	5	29	34	14
C H L
Willie Coetzee	Red Deer	WHL	23	11	24	35	4
Andrej Nestrasil	Victoriaville	QMJHL	23	10	19	29	20
Brent Raedeke	Edmonton	WHL	25	11	12	23	32
Mitchell Callahan	Kelowna	WHL	23	7	9	16	56
Gleason Fournier	Rimouski	QMJHL	16	4	10	14	36
Stephen Johnston	Belleville	OHL	15	6	4	10	16
Brian Lashoff	Kingston	OHL	22	4	5	9	34
Landon Ferraro	Red Deer	WHL	13	2	6	8	15
N C A A
Gustav Nyquist	Maine	HE	10	5	8	13	4
Brendan Smith	Wisconsin	WCHA	9	2	8	10	16
Brian Rufenach	Clarkson	ECAC	10	2	6	8	27
Nick Oslund	St. Cloud St.	WCHA	10	1	3	4	8
Max Nicastro	Boston U.	HE	9	1	2	3	8
Julien Cayer	Clarkson	ECAC	11	1	1	2	6
U S H L
Nick Jensen	Green Bay	USHL	10	0	5	5	4

The following is an up-to-date statistical report for goaltenders:

NAME	TEAM	LEAGUE	GP	W-L-O	GAA	SPCT
Daniel Larsson	Grand Rapids	AHL	7	5-2-0	2.70	.916
Thomas McCollum	Grand Rapids	AHL	9	5-3-0	2.94	.885
Jordan Pearce	Toledo	ECHL	6	2-3-1	4.79	.841