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Get to know University of Denver Goalie Dayton Rasmussen

Dayton Rasmussen is an incoming freshman goalie at the University of Denver. A native of Eden Prairie, Minn., he spent one year with the Colorado Thunderbirds midget program before advancing to the junior ranks, spending two seasons in the USHL with the Waterloo Black Hawks, Tri-City Storm, and Chicago Steel. Rasmussen was part of two consecutive Clark Cup-winning teams and also took home some more hardware with Team USA at the World Junior A Challenge last December. At 6’1” and 203 pounds, he was ranked sixth among North American goalies by Central Scouting for the 2017 NHL Draft, and will get another crack at being drafted next year.