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Dallas Stars Draft Profile: Forward Michael Rasmussen

Name: Michael Rasmussen

Position: Center

Shoots: Left-handed

Hometown: Surrey, British Columbia

Size: 6-foot-5, 200 lbs

Team: Tri-City Americans (Western Hockey League)

Stats: 32 goals, 23 assists, 55 points in 50 games.

NHL Ceiling: Top-six power forward

The power forward in the National Hockey League is somewhat of a dying breed; only a few players, one of which is Dallas Stars team captain Jamie Benn, can be described as the classic, prototypical power forward.

Anze Kopitar, Wayne Simmonds, Rick Nash, and others fall under that criteria, but the NHL is trending smaller and faster, rather than bulky and hard to take off the puck.