But perhaps the biggest accomplishment for Rasmussen was the trust he garnered from the coaching staff, earning a much bigger role last season, averaging almost three minutes more ice time per game than in 2019-20 and ranking second on the club with 72 hits and fourth with 134 face-off wins.
He continued gaining trust throughout the season, jumping from 12:50 of average ice time in his first 20 games of the season to 16:46 per game in the final 20 contests.
The biggest thing to remember here is that an article that appears on the Red Wings website is absolutely not at all gunning for anything resembling objectivity, but there’s nothing in here that’s necesssarily untrue.