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Michael Rasmussen
Detroit Red Wings Center
6-6 and 222 pounds, and 59 per cent of his shots taken from inside 20 feet.
| 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 | DET | 77 | 11 | 10 | 21 | -12 | 24 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 99 | 11.1 | 13:25 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 390 | 60 | 80 | 140 | -40 | 235 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 552 | 10.9 | 14:09 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 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
11 goals and 10 assists in 77 games for 21 points, minus-12, on 13:25 a night.
46.6 per cent at five-on-five, the 23rd percentile. 59 per cent of his shots came from inside 20 feet at a median of 16 — one of the most extreme interior profiles in this edition — and 11.1 per cent conversion from those distances is a low return.
The Finesse Game
Limited. 99 shots and 11 goals, and 10 assists in a full season is thin even for a fourth-line centre.
The hands in tight are ordinary for a man who spends his whole night within 20 feet of a goaltender, which is the specific thing keeping him from being useful. If the finishing improved he would be a 20-goal player.
The Physical Game
6-6 and 222, and this is the job. He is very difficult to move from the front of the net, wins pucks below the goal line, and forechecks with real weight.
24 penalty minutes over 77 games is disciplined for the size. The skating is the limitation and it is why he has never been trusted with more than fourteen minutes.
The Intangibles
A 9th overall pick who has become a fourth-line net-front centre, which is a long way from what the draft position implied and a genuinely useful player.
At 26 this is close to the answer. The projection is 12 goals and hard minutes, and the club has now given him seven seasons to become more.
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.
- measuredcomputed here from the season's own data
- 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.
- slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
64.6% of his attempts in the slot, 92nd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
“He is very difficult to move from the front of the net, wins pucks below the goal line, and forechecks with real weight.”
“He is very difficult to move from the front of the net, wins pucks below the goal line, and forechecks with real weight.”
“He is very difficult to move from the front of the net, wins pucks below the goal line, and forechecks with real weight.”
“A 9th overall pick who has become a fourth-line net-front centre”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 840 minutes
- Expected goals
- 46.6%
- 24th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.1%
- 19th 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: 28 for, 35 against. Expected: 28.8 and 33.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 31 points above where the numbers do. 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. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
Both bars are percentiles among the 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 73 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, 2024-25 · 77 games
- Top speed
- 23.3 mph
- 94th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.61 a game
- Distance
- 2.03 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 82.8 mph
- 31st pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.9
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
2024-25 · 840 minutes at five-on-five
- Christian Fischeroff the roster30%
- Tyler Motteoff the roster20%
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, 2024-25
- The club
- DET took 48.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 46.6% — 1.6 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 840 minutes at five-on-five — 40th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Chiarot | 39.0% | 52.2% | 46.6% |
| Moritz Seider | 51.7% | 43.7% | 49.9% |
| Simon Edvinsson | 49.2% | 45.5% | 48.7% |
39.0% together, 52.2% for him apart and 46.6% for Chiarot apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.
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
144 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 11 of them goals. His median goal came from 7 feet. 59% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 15% from beyond forty.