Michael Rasmussen (ice hockey player)

Michael Rasmussen
Date of birth	April 17, 1999
place of birth	Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada
size	197 cm
Weight	100 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2017 , 1st round, 9th position Detroit Red Wings
Career stations
2015-2018	Tri-City Americans
since 2018	Detroit Red Wings Grand Rapids Griffins

Michael Rasmussen (born April 17, 1999 in Vancouver , British Columbia ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League since August 2017 and for their farm team, the Grand Rapids Griffins , in the American Hockey League is used.

Career

Michael Rasmussen was born in Vancouver and played in his youth for the youth program Okanagan Hockey . In 2014 he was selected in seventh position in the Bantam Draft of the Western Hockey League (WHL) by the Tri-City Americans and made his debut for the team towards the end of the 2014/15 season in the WHL, the highest-ranking junior league in the region. The center-forward established himself as a regular scorer for the Americans, with a total of 32 goals and 23 assists in 50 games in the 2016/17 season before he was considered ninth in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft by the Detroit Red Wings . For the time being, however, he returned for another season in the WHL, in which he led the Americans as team captain to the semi-finals of the playoffs and failed with them there on the Everett Silvertips . In addition, he placed second on the playoff scorer list with 33 points from only 14 games .

After Rasmussen had already signed an entry contract with the Red Wings in August 2017 , he earned a place in their squad as part of the preparation for the 2018/19 season and subsequently made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) in early October 2018 . He was subsequently used regularly and ended the season with 62 completed NHL games, but lost this regular place at the beginning of the following season. As a result, he has since been mostly on the ice with the Red Wings farm team in the American Hockey League (AHL), the Grand Rapids Griffins .

International

In the international field, Rasmussen took part in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2015 and the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2016 , where he missed the medal ranks with the Canadian selection.

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2014/15	Tri-City Americans	WHL		1	0	0	0	± 0	2		3	0	0	0	-1	0
2015/16	Tri-City Americans	WHL		63	18th	25th	43	+4	37		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Tri-City Americans	WHL		50	32	23	55	-13	50		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Tri-City Americans	WHL		47	31	28	59	+17	40		14th	16	17th	33	+8	4th
2018/19	Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL		3	2	0	2	± 0	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		62	8th	10	18th	-8th	29		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL		35	7th	15th	22nd	–7	20th		-	-	-	-	-	-
WHL overall				161	81	76	157	+8	129		17th	16	17th	33	+7	4th
AHL total				38	9	15th	24	–7	20th		-	-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall				62	8th	10	18th	-8th	29		-	-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented Canada to:

• World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2015
• Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2016

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2015	Canada Black	WHC	8th place		5	2	1	3		16
2016	Canada	Hlinka Memorial	5th place		4th	1	3	4th	+1	8th
Juniors overall					9	3	4th	7th		24

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

• Player biography on the Detroit Red Wings website
• Michael Rasmussen at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kyle Kujawa: Detroit agrees to terms with 2017 first-round pick Michael Rasmussen. nhl.com, accessed October 31, 2018 (English).