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Defence · #38

Rasmus Sandin

Age
26
Shoots
Left
Height
180 cm
Weight
86 kg
Born
Uppsala, SWE
Draft
2018, round 1, #29 (TOR)

Career · 2019–20 to 2025–26

Games
382
Goals
25
Points
145
TOI per game
18:48
xGF% (5v5)
51.8%
Goals above expected
+2.0

Season by season

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

2019–20TOR28178−714:19224.5%00.948.7%
2020–21TOR9044+614:4090.0%00.558.0%
2021–22TOR5151116+916:584610.9%33.258.7%
2022–23TOR5241620+1017:59586.9%72.657.9%
2022–23WSH1931215−722:592313.0%41.244.0%
2022–23All teams7172835+319:20818.6%113.753.3%
2023–24WSH6832023−1321:07793.8%54.647.1%
2024–25WSH8242630+1319:11785.1%55.252.8%
2025–26WSH7352429+419:12905.6%14.949.6%
Total2 teams38225120145+1518:484056.2%2523.051.8%

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)
00.511.550100150200250300350
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Player card

How 2019–20 to 2025–26 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

2nd pair

71st percentile among qualified defencemen, blending scoring 30%, play-driving 50%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st pair
  2. 2nd pair
  3. 3rd pair
  4. Extra / AHL

Scoring

2nd pair
  • Goals /600.2161st pct
  • Assists /601.0085th pct
  • ixG /600.1959th pct
  • Shots /603.3831st pct

Play-driving

2nd pair
  • xGF% (5v5)51.8%78th pct
  • CF% (5v5)49.8%61st pct
  • Relative xGF%+0.974th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.5450th pct

Usage

2nd pair
  • TOI per game18:4866th pct
  • PP time share26.2%78th pct
  • PK time share10.1%22nd pct
  • Quality of competition24.4%59th pct

Percentiles among defencemen 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).

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.

+2.0 goals above expected

051015202550100150200250300350Game

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

−20−100+10+20+30+40

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 speed35.3 km/h60th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph6185th pct
  • Hardest shot146.0 km/h52nd pct
  • Distance skated324 km69th pct
  • Offensive-zone time39.6%20th pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other defencemen 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 defencemanMiddle 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

35.3 km/h48th pct

▲ +0.2 km/h since 2024–25

3435363721–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 35.5 km/h, 61st percentile (51 games)2022–23: 35.2 km/h, 50th percentile (71 games)2023–24: 36.6 km/h, 85th percentile (68 games)2024–25: 35.2 km/h, 49th percentile (82 games)2025–26: 35.3 km/h, 48th percentile (73 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

2.678th pct

▲ +0.9 since 2024–25

0.511.522.5321–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 1.0, 32nd percentile (51 games)2022–23: 1.1, 37th percentile (71 games)2023–24: 1.1, 31st percentile (68 games)2024–25: 1.8, 59th percentile (82 games)2025–26: 2.6, 78th percentile (73 games)

Distance skated per 60

13.9 km62nd pct

▼ −0.3 km since 2024–25

12.51313.51414.51521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 14.2 km, 89th percentile (51 games)2022–23: 14.4 km, 93rd percentile (71 games)2023–24: 14.5 km, 93rd percentile (68 games)2024–25: 14.1 km, 79th percentile (82 games)2025–26: 13.9 km, 62nd percentile (73 games)

Hardest shot

146.0 km/h38th pct

▼ −3.5 km/h since 2024–25

13514014515015516021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 138.3 km/h, 4th percentile (51 games)2022–23: 156.7 km/h, 82nd percentile (71 games)2023–24: 146.8 km/h, 36th percentile (68 games)2024–25: 149.6 km/h, 60th percentile (82 games)2025–26: 146.0 km/h, 38th percentile (73 games)

Offensive-zone time

39.6%20th pct

▼ −1.5 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%48%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 45.7%, 96th percentile (51 games)2022–23: 44.9%, 87th percentile (71 games)2023–24: 39.8%, 26th percentile (68 games)2024–25: 41.0%, 40th percentile (82 games)2025–26: 39.6%, 20th percentile (73 games)