Armchair Scout
Rasmus Andersson

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Rasmus Andersson

Vegas Golden Knights Defense #4

Seventeen goals from a blue line, twenty-three minutes a night, and forty-eight goals for against seventy-two.

SeasonGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2025-2681173047+4716101789.623:12
Career61764214278-11350133911545.521:49

Last Season

Seventeen goals and 30 assists in 81 games — 47 points, plus-four, at 23:12 a night — the heaviest workload on the club — with six power-play goals and 71 penalty minutes.

His 617th career game and his 278th point.

The Finesse Game

The shot is the tool and it is one of the heaviest from any blue line in the league. Two hundred and seventy-five unblocked attempts from a median of 45 feet with 63 per cent from beyond forty, and seventeen goals came out of it.

Seventeen goals from a defenceman is a top-three figure at the position, and it is not a fluke — he has scored double figures three times.

Thirty assists is a fair rate.

The Physical Game

Six foot one, 202, and he plays a physical, sometimes undisciplined game. Seventy-one penalty minutes.

He defends his crease and finishes checks. The skating is adequate and genuine speed can beat him wide.

The Intangibles

Forty-nine point four per cent of the expected goals, 47th percentile, and 49.6 per cent of the shot attempts, 53rd, across 1,478 minutes — the only Vegas regular below the fiftieth percentile in chance share.

The goals came out 48 for and 72 against, the worst margin on the club.

Ten points in his last ten, five of them goals. He is 29, arrived from Calgary, and on a roster where everybody else is above water he is the one who is not. Twenty-three minutes a night is a great deal of ice for that.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1478 minutes

Expected goals
49.4%
47th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
49.6%
53rd pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 48 for, 72 against. Expected: 58.0 and 59.5.

The eye and the numbers

Report
78
Numbers
47

The numbers are colder on him than this report is — worth asking who he played with, and against whom.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

10

points in his last 10 games — 5 goals, 5 assists, 26 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 with CGY · 858 minutes at five-on-five

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.

Where he shoots from

goal on goal missed

275 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 17 of them goals. His median goal came from 27 feet. 13% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 63% from beyond forty.