r/DetroitRedWings • u/dudewithchronicpain Yzerbot • 2d ago

Game Highlight Rasmussen with the nifty move to make it 4-1 04/04/2025

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u/dilypucks Yzerbot 2d ago

Every now and again Ras reminds you why he was top 10 pick

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u/nicholasccc95 2d ago

Unfortunately it’s every now and again a lot. Always wished he could utilize his body more and become more of a top 6 forward, but it seems like he’s kinda peaked out in the bottom. Don’t wanna be too negative about him though, he’s still decently young.

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u/nem704 2d ago

That was the knock on him, he'd be an NHL forward and have some success, just how much though

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u/big_phat_gator Yzerbot 2d ago edited 2d ago

A lot of the players that played like him has fizzled out since the league has switched to a faster more skilled playstyle. It sucks but the league is always evolving and some players while drafted really good at a certain style, after developing for a couple of years it just not plausible anymore to play like that. Anders Lee used to be a menace playing like this, he almost cant crack 30 now.

I dont think he was a bad pick and if he played in the NHL maybe 5 years before he was drafted he would have probably had a good career.

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u/cvaicunas69 1d ago

It was a bad pick, Necas and Suzuki being taken after him demonstrates this to be the case. Holland stated they wanted to go with size for that draft. The organization was not at a point to ignore taking the best player available.

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u/big_phat_gator Yzerbot 1d ago

Yup, Necas is much more modern NHL and thats evident with how he is producing and even more evident when he came to Colorado who really plays the textbook modern NHL quick hockey with Makar and MacKinnon. The quicker the league has become the better Necas has, total opposite for Rasmussen.

I dont think Rasmussen was bad, again as i said, i just think it was the wrong time.

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u/cvaicunas69 1d ago

I'd argue the league was already there, you can throw in the team perhaps used him improperly. He should have stayed in junior one more year, and they have rarely used him as a net front presence. But Ras was the wrong pick from day one.

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u/cvaicunas69 1d ago

The NHL has not changed that much since he was drafted, your 'modern' NHL take is revisionist at best

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u/AmeriCanada98 Yzerbot 1d ago

maybe 5 years before

Probably 10 or 15 years before. Ras was drafted in 2017 after guys like MacKinnon and McDavid. The league was already very much transitioning into a speed league by time he was picked

If Rasmussen was drafted around the time of guys like Getslaf, Perry, Bobby Ryan, and so on I'd agree

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u/big_phat_gator Yzerbot 1d ago

Guys like Pavelski, JVR and Lee all peaked around the time Ras was drafted, so Holland basically drafted someone who played a style of game that players who had already been around for 10 years in the league played and had success with. Its difficult to predict the future

Lee had 34 goals in 2016/17 and 40 in 2017/18

JVR 36 goals in 2017/18

Pavelski had like 3 consecutive 40 goal seasons or something around that time too.

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u/N_Unit13 2d ago

Damn. Didn’t know Moose could do that 

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u/CallistosTitan 2d ago

Vintage Prince George Cougars Ras

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u/2shack 2d ago

Uhhhh, he never, at any point, played for PG.

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u/CallistosTitan 2d ago

What am I smoking?

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u/2shack 2d ago

Fuck if I know!

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u/snickelbag 2d ago

I dunno either but I’ll have some anyway

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u/GorbleChormley 2d ago

Dennis Cholowski

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u/GorbleChormley 2d ago

Dennis Cholowski

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u/Four_give 2d ago

S I C K

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u/TAV63 2d ago

Nice goal. Wish he would do more of that.

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u/bonkers799 2d ago

Thats wild that he stayed out of the crease. Smooth

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u/ReallyNotOkayGuys 2d ago

If we lose I blame you. You said it was 4-1 so I looked at the score. We have not won a game since the turn of the new year when I check the score during the game.

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u/oceanic8675 Yzerbot 2d ago

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u/TechnoVikingGA23 1d ago

Beautiful dish from Motte as well and nice job being aggressive, usually you'd just expect that play to go back out of the zone with no one around to get the puck.

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u/Nstalk918 1d ago

I cackled and said “ewh that was gross” out loud when he did that shit.