In 2015, the Calgary Flames traded three draft picks to the Boston Bruins to land themselves a top pairing defender. In retrospect it’s pretty ironic, then, that the long-term top pairing defender they actually got at that draft may end up being second round pick Rasmus Andersson.
A plucky Swede who plied his trade in the Ontario Hockey League, Andersson seems poised to step into the top pairing spot vacated by TJ Brodie. So what can we expect from Andersson in 2020-21?
How he got here
A son of Swedish hockey mainstay Peter Andersson, who played 47 NHL games with the Rangers and Florida as part of a 20-plus season pro career, the younger Andersson played most of his hockey growing up with Malmo.