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Centre · #27

Michael Rasmussen

Age
27
Shoots
Left
Height
198 cm
Weight
100 kg
Born
Surrey, CAN
Draft
2017, round 1, #9 (DET)

Career · 8 seasons

Games
457
Goals
66
Points
154
TOI per game
13:58
xGF% (5v5)
45.5%
Goals above expected
−25.0

Season by season

The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.

2018–19DET6281018−812:057410.8%410.943.6%
After a break: 2020–21DET403912−514:48624.8%28.440.1%
2021–22DET80151227−2514:3112811.7%217.142.0%
2022–23DET56101929+215:068811.4%113.849.8%
2023–24DET75132033+815:1110112.9%014.446.8%
2024–25DET77111021−1213:259911.1%416.548.0%
2025–26DET646814−1012:39659.2%09.345.6%
2026–27DET3000−117:0340.0%00.574.7%
Total1 team4576688154−5113:5862110.6%1391.045.5%

Form

Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.

Form, ten-game rolling

Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.

Points per gameixG per gameTOI per game (minutes)
00.20.40.60.81100200300400
10m12m14m16m18m100200300400Game

Player card

How 8 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

4th line

33rd percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st line
  2. 2nd line
  3. 3rd line
  4. 4th line
  5. Extra / AHL

Scoring

4th line
  • Goals /600.6241st pct
  • Assists /600.8343rd pct
  • ixG /600.8669th pct
  • Goals above expected−25.01st pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)45.5%24th pct
  • CF% (5v5)44.4%11th pct
  • Relative xGF%−1.147th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.0647th pct

Usage

3rd line
  • TOI per game13:5857th pct
  • PP time share18.4%49th pct
  • Offensive zone starts46.0%30th pct
  • Quality of competition24.2%58th pct

Percentiles among forwards with 200+ minutes at 5-on-5 and 20+ games. Ratings rank each column's average percentile among the same players and read it as a role on a depth chart (how).

Faceoffs

How often Rasmussen wins the draw over 8 seasons, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1376+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

48.1%

1052–1136 · #134 of 192 regulars, 30th percentile

Against an average centre

48.5%

Opponents won 50.5% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.5% against them.

Wins above average

−32

Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.

Draws per game

6.7

2,188 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

47%502 · +1.552%484 · +1.841%185 · +1.462%55 · +0.538%61 · +0.551%61 · −1.941%64 · +1.853%405 · +1.843%371 · +1.5Attacking zone →← Defending zone

Win rate at each dot; the small numbers are draws and the xG swing (×100) of winning rather than losing there.

By zone

  • Offensive zone48.6% 325–344
  • Neutral zone47.4% 352–391
  • Defensive zone48.3% 375–401

By strength

  • Even strength48.1% 908–979
  • Power play53.9% 83–71
  • Shorthanded41.5% 61–86

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +9 after a win, −19 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.5 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2018–196435.9%35.3%
2020–2130244.4%44.6%
2021–2281950.1%50.4%
2022–2339851.0%51.7%
2023–2412048.3%49.2%
2024–2519646.4%47.0%
2025–2628646.2%46.9%
2026–27333.3%31.5%

Finishing

Did the goals match the chances?

Goals against expected goals

Cumulative goals (solid) and individual xG (dashed) through the season. The gap is finishing: above the dashed line, the player scored more than an average shooter would from the same chances.

−25.0 goals above expected

020406080100100200300400Game

Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games

−500+50+100

Speed and tracking

From the NHL's EDGE tracking system (2021–22 on): skating speed, shot speed, distance and zone time, for the selected seasons and then every tracked season, to show improvement or decline.

Tracking data (NHL EDGE)

Values from the NHL's puck and player tracking, with the NHL's own league percentile for each. Missing values mean the player wasn't tracked enough.

Tracking

  • Top skating speed34.5 km/h59th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph447th pct
  • Hardest shot123.8 km/h50th pct
  • Distance skated12 km48th pct
  • Offensive-zone time44.0%70th pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other forwards that season with 20+ games. A season in progress appears once half its games are played, as provisional: season bests only grow. Bursts and distance are per 60 minutes of ice time, so seasons with fewer games still compare. Percentiles are on these rates, so they can differ from the NHL's, which are on season totals.

This playerMedian forwardMiddle half (25th–75th percentile)Hollow dot: too few games to rank, or a season in progress (*, dashed). Dotted line: no NHL games that season.

Top skating speed

35.8 km/h40th pct

▼ −1.7 km/h since 2024–25

343536373821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 35.8 km/h, 44th percentile (80 games)2022–23: 36.2 km/h, 58th percentile (56 games)2023–24: 35.6 km/h, 37th percentile (75 games)2024–25: 37.5 km/h, 92nd percentile (77 games)2025–26: 35.8 km/h, 40th percentile (64 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

6.965th pct

▼ −0.3 since 2024–25

24681021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 5.2, 49th percentile (80 games)2022–23: 6.8, 68th percentile (56 games)2023–24: 5.4, 55th percentile (75 games)2024–25: 7.2, 67th percentile (77 games)2025–26: 6.9, 65th percentile (64 games)

Distance skated per 60

14.9 km17th pct

▲ +0.3 km since 2024–25

131415161721–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 14.6 km, 11th percentile (80 games)2022–23: 14.9 km, 24th percentile (56 games)2023–24: 14.1 km, 2nd percentile (75 games)2024–25: 14.6 km, 6th percentile (77 games)2025–26: 14.9 km, 17th percentile (64 games)

Hardest shot

134.0 km/h28th pct

▲ +0.8 km/h since 2024–25

12013014015016021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 140.0 km/h, 34th percentile (80 games)2022–23: 126.8 km/h, 3rd percentile (56 games)2023–24: 135.3 km/h, 20th percentile (75 games)2024–25: 133.2 km/h, 18th percentile (77 games)2025–26: 134.0 km/h, 28th percentile (64 games)

Offensive-zone time

38.8%13th pct

▼ −2.7 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 39.6%, 23rd percentile (80 games)2022–23: 40.9%, 37th percentile (56 games)2023–24: 39.4%, 21st percentile (75 games)2024–25: 41.5%, 45th percentile (77 games)2025–26: 38.8%, 13th percentile (64 games)