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Rasmus Andersson
Calgary Flames Defense
Twenty-three fifty a night — the most on the club — and a hundred and sixty-four career assists.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | CGY | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 18:33 |
| 2017-18 | CGY | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0.0 | 15:26 |
| 2018-19 | CGY | 79 | 2 | 17 | 19 | +17 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 115 | 1.7 | 16:02 |
| 2019-20 | CGY | 70 | 5 | 17 | 22 | -7 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 124 | 4.0 | 19:56 |
| 2020-21 | CGY | 56 | 5 | 16 | 21 | -9 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 96 | 5.2 | 21:13 |
| 2021-22 | CGY | 82 | 4 | 46 | 50 | +30 | 28 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 152 | 2.6 | 22:40 |
| 2022-23 | CGY | 79 | 11 | 38 | 49 | +5 | 26 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 159 | 6.9 | 24:05 |
| 2023-24 | CGY | 78 | 9 | 30 | 39 | -11 | 47 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 159 | 5.7 | 23:50 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 455 | 36 | 164 | 200 | +23 | 219 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 813 | 4.4 | 21:12 |
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
9 goals and 30 assists in 78 games — 39 points at 23:50 a night, minus-11, with 1 shorthanded goal and 3 game-winners on 159 shots at 5.66 per cent, and 47 penalty minutes.
Twenty-three fifty is the most ice of anyone on the roster.
48.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,433 minutes, the 42nd percentile. His ice went 68-74 against an expectation of 60.30-63.86 — ten goals conceded above expectation, in front of goaltending that was 27th in the league.
The Finesse Game
159 attempts at a median of 51 feet, with 69 per cent from beyond 40 and 8 per cent from inside 20, converting at 5.66 per cent. The shot from the point is genuinely heavy and it is the second unit’s whole entry.
He walks the line and holds the puck until a forechecker commits, and 164 career assists in 455 games is the record of a defenceman who moves the puck for a living. He will carry it out when the pass is not there.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 202. He blocks shots and defends positionally, and he does not punish anybody or clear his crease by force.
47 penalty minutes in 78 games and 219 in 455 for his career is a moderate rate. He is trusted a man short, and a share of the fouling is the stick foul that follows losing a step.
The Intangibles
Fifty-third overall in 2015 — a second-round pick — out of Malmo, and 455 games and 200 points at 27 with a career plus-23, all of them here.
A club that lost Noah Hanifin and Chris Tanev in one off-season now asks him and MacKenzie Weegar to play forty-seven minutes a night between them, and both of them are better second-pairing defencemen than first-pairing ones.
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
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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.
- durable· was available
78 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“**He walks the line and holds the puck until a forechecker commits**, and **164 career assists in 455 games** is the record of a defenceman who moves the puck for a living.”
“He will carry it out when the pass is not there.”
“**He blocks shots and defends positionally**, and he does not punish anybody or clear his crease by force.”
“**He blocks shots and defends positionally**, and he does not punish anybody or clear his crease by force.”
“**He blocks shots and defends positionally**, and he does not punish anybody or clear his crease by force.”
“**He is trusted a man short**, and a share of the fouling is the stick foul that follows losing a step.”
“**He is trusted a man short**, and a share of the fouling is the stick foul that follows losing a step.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,433 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.6%
- 43rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 50.4%
- 58th 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: 68 for, 74 against. Expected: 60.3 and 63.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 24 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 652 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, 2023-24 · 78 games
- Top speed
- 22.1 mph
- 70th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.64 a game
- Distance
- 3.38 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 100.9 mph
- 96th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.7
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.2
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 · 1433 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.
Why the numbers land there
Five-on-five, 2023-24
- The club
- CGY took 49.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.6% — 1.3 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,433 minutes at five-on-five — 95th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| MacKenzie Weegar | 49.0% | 48.1% | 52.4% |
| Jonathan Huberdeau | 48.3% | 48.7% | 51.5% |
| Nazem Kadri | 47.1% | 49.1% | 52.6% |
49.0% together, 48.1% for him apart and 52.4% for Weegar apart. Weegar was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more than for him.
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
230 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 9 of them goals. His median goal came from 21 feet. 8% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 69% from beyond forty.