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Rasmus Andersson

Calgary Flames Defense

31 points, 23:59 a night, and a minus-38 — the second-worst rating in the league.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2016-17CGY1000-10000018:33
2017-18CGY10000-1400080.015:26
2018-19CGY7921719+17230001151.716:02
2019-20CGY7051722-7570001244.019:56
2020-21CGY5651621-934100965.221:13
2021-22CGY8244650+30282011522.622:40
2022-23CGY79113849+5261141596.924:05
2023-24CGY7893039-11470131595.723:50
2024-25CGY81112031-38603011636.823:59
2025-26 so far
Career53647184231-152797299764.821:37

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 20 assists in 81 games for 31 points, minus-38, on 23:59 a night and 163 shots.

48.6 per cent at five-on-five, the 37th percentile, over 1,448 minutes. His on-ice goals were 51-48 against an expected 56-59, which is a roughly even five-on-five season — the minus-38 came almost entirely shorthanded and on the empty net, and it is one of the most misleading ratings in this edition.

The Finesse Game

A genuine shot from the point — 163 attempts and 11 goals is a good return — and a first pass that is quick when he is not pressured.

The decision-making under a forecheck is the recurring problem. He attempts the difficult play at the wrong time and the resulting turnovers happen in his own zone, which is how a defenceman with real tools posts a 37th-percentile share at 24 minutes a night.

The Physical Game

6-1 and 202, and he is willing without being punishing. He defends his net front adequately and takes contact to make a play.

60 penalty minutes over 81 games is a high rate and part of why he is on the ice for so much shorthanded damage.

The Intangibles

A second-round pick, eight seasons in one organisation, and a season played in the middle of persistent trade speculation with a contract expiring.

At 28 the honest reading is a good second-pair defenceman being used as a first, whose rating last season was far worse than his play. Both halves of that sentence matter, and the club has to decide which one it is paying for.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,448 minutes

Expected goals
48.6%
37th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
49.8%
50th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 51 for, 48 against. Expected: 55.8 and 59.0.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
36th
Numbers
37th

The two rank him within 1 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 315 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 71 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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 · 1448 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, 2024-25

The club
CGY took 48.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.6% — 0.1 below the club he did it on.
The role
First pair, 1,448 minutes at five-on-five — 97th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Kevin Bahl47.8%51.4%43.3%
Nazem Kadri49.5%48.2%49.2%
Mikael Backlund50.5%47.7%51.4%

47.8% together, 51.4% for him apart and 43.3% for Bahl apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Bahl behind.

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

255 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 13 of them goals. His median goal came from 30 feet. 9% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 67% from beyond forty.