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Michael Rasmussen
Detroit Red Wings Center
Six foot six and 222 pounds, 51 per cent of his shots from inside twenty feet, and the lowest chance share on the club.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | DET | 62 | 8 | 10 | 18 | -8 | 29 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 74 | 10.8 | 12:05 |
| 2020-21 | DET | 40 | 3 | 9 | 12 | -5 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 62 | 4.8 | 14:48 |
| 2021-22 | DET | 80 | 15 | 12 | 27 | -25 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 128 | 11.7 | 14:31 |
| 2022-23 | DET | 56 | 10 | 19 | 29 | +2 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 88 | 11.4 | 15:06 |
| 2023-24 | DET | 75 | 13 | 20 | 33 | +8 | 47 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 101 | 12.9 | 15:11 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 313 | 49 | 70 | 119 | -28 | 211 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 453 | 10.8 | 14:20 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
Seventy-five games, 13 goals and 20 assists with 1 shorthanded, 47 penalty minutes, 15:11 a night and plus-8. He converted 12.87 per cent of 101 shots against a career 10.82 across 453.
He took 44.3 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 978 minutes, the 17th percentile and the lowest on the club, and his ice went 40-38 against an expectation of 33.13-41.62. He plays the hardest defensive-zone shifts among the forwards, which is most of the explanation and not all of it.
The Finesse Game
He shoots from a median of 19 feet with 51 per cent of his attempts from inside 20. At 6-6 he does not need to create the chance — he stands where the puck arrives and puts it in.
Seventy career assists in 313 games. There is no playmaking game and there is not much of a shot; 49 goals in 313 games is a third-line rate and it is what the ninth pick of a draft was supposed to improve on.
The Physical Game
He is 6-6 and 222 and he clears the front of his own net. On a club with the 28th-ranked penalty kill that is the single most needed thing anybody here does.
Forty-seven penalty minutes in 75 games is a moderate rate. He is hard to move from the paint and he wins the wall against most defencemen, and the skating is the limit — a quick forward beats him wide and there is nothing to be done.
The Intangibles
The ninth pick in 2017 out of Surrey, five seasons and 313 games, and a career minus-28. He was drafted to be a first-line centre and is a very useful third-line one.
He is 25 and the thing he does best — standing in front of a net at 6-6 — is the thing this club has least of.
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.
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
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.
“At 6-6 he does not need to create the chance — he stands where the puck arrives and puts it in.”
“He is 6-6 and 222 and he clears the front of his own net.”
“He is hard to move from the paint and he wins the wall against most defencemen, and the skating is the limit — a quick forward beats him wide and there is nothing to be done.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 978 minutes
- Expected goals
- 44.3%
- 17th pct
- Shot attempts
- 43.8%
- 12th 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: 40 for, 38 against. Expected: 33.1 and 41.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 0 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 61 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, 2023-24 · 75 games
- Top speed
- 22.1 mph
- 47th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.37 a game
- Distance
- 2.22 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 84.1 mph
- 34th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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
2023-24 · 978 minutes at five-on-five
- Andrew Copp49%
- J.T. Compher24%
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, 2023-24
- The club
- DET took 45.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 44.3% — 1.6 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 978 minutes at five-on-five — 55th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Copp | 45.7% | 42.9% | 44.4% |
| Moritz Seider | 43.2% | 45.0% | 43.6% |
| Ben Chiarot | 39.3% | 47.1% | 46.3% |
45.7% together, 42.9% for him apart and 44.4% for Copp 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
142 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 13 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 51% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 16% from beyond forty.