Regular season

Rasmus Sandin

Washington Capitals · D · #38

Second-pair DSteady Blueliner?127 blocks across 73 games of regular duty

HT: 5'11"
WT: 189 lb
Age: 26
Shoots: L
From: Uppsala, SWE
Draft: 2018 TOR · R1 #29

74Alpha?

Alpha sub-scores

what drives the rating · percentile vs position group

5656pctl

5151pctl

4040pctl

7878pctl

League profile

vs. defensemen with 20+ GP

0.4073pctl

0.0760pctl

0.3377pctl

1.260pctl

+462pctl

159pctl

HockeyAlpha advanced

event-derived proxies · 1,312 games analyzed

2%19pctl

0.9419pctl

0.0624pctl

Def Suppression?

1.0193pctl

Defenseman toolkit

vs. defensemen with 20+ GP

1.7483pctl

5.4382pctl

Blocks / 100 shifts?

8.192pctl

3.865pctl

0.3682pctl

0:4967pctl

1:2546pctl

On-ice impact

shift charts × our xG model · 46 GP tracked · 15h TOI

On-ice xG share (5v5)?

47.5%31pctl

On-ice goal share (5v5)?

44.8%28pctl

O-zone deployment?

50%49pctl

Usage profile

assignment difficulty · higher fill = tougher job

Competition faced?

17.4 min51pctl

Support received?

16.5 min77pctl

D-zone deployment?

50%51pctl

Micro-metrics

Structural Metric Model · sequences, geometry & leverage from every shot

Cross-slot shots / GP?

0.0429pctl

Net-front presence / GP?

0.1911pctl

Second-chance touches / GP?

0.106pctl

0.97×36pctl

Cross-slot suppressed?

0.27/gm32pctl

Pressure escape rate?

8.2%58pctl

2025-26 regular season · Percentile beams: fill = league percentile, tick = league median · hockeyalpha.com

The Blueprint

Structural Event Engine · percentile vs defensemen · center = median · 1238 EV min

General Offense

3.8863

2.8639

Shot Setups/60?

0.7847

Chance Setups/60?

0.6852

Primary Contributions/60?

4.6559

Rebounds Created/60?

0.1927

Playmaking Sequences

Point Shot Setups/60?

0.0031

Center-Lane Setups/60?

0.3952

High-Danger Setups/60?

0.0524

Deflection Setups/60?

0.1084

One-Timer Setups/60?

0.1052

Offense Types

Cycle Offense/60?

1.5039

Rush Offense/60?

5.8155

Shots off HD Setups/60?

0.1932

0.0517

0.0025

Deflections/60?

0.2988

Zone Entries

Entries Started/60?

0.0568

Entries Finished/60?

0.2442

Entries w/ Chance/60?

0.1563

DZ Retrievals / Exits

DZ Involvements/60?

3.0067

0.8288

2.1848

Retrieval Success %?

27%86

Exit Involvements/60?

0.0578

Exit Success %?

2%73

Forechecking

0.5367

Dump-In Recoveries/60?

0.0048

Derived from event sequences in public play-by-play data - the ? on each metric explains exactly how it's computed. · hockeyalpha.com

Contract & market

Contract value?

beta · cap data: CapWages

$4.60M

cap hit

$6.07M

Alpha-market value

overpaidmarketsurplus

B

Good value (+$1.5M)

Top comparables?

nearest profiles at the same role · match = statistical fit

Player	Alpha	Archetype	Production	Cap hit	Market	Value	Match
Rasmus Sandin	74	Steady Blueliner	29 P · 73 GP	$4.60M	$6.07M	B+$1.5M	this player
Mario Ferraro	73	Steady Blueliner	23 P · 82 GP	$3.25M	$5.74M	A+$2.5M	87%
Martin Fehervary	73	Steady Blueliner	27 P · 81 GP	$2.67M	$5.74M	A+$3.1M	87%
Jared Spurgeon	73	Steady Blueliner	22 P · 79 GP	$7.58M	$5.74M	D−$1.8M	86%
Jake McCabe	74	Steady Blueliner	25 P · 80 GP	$4.49M	$6.07M	B+$1.6M	84%

Chemistry

Top connection: Alex Ovechkin · 4 goals together

Finishes from

assisters on Rasmus’s goals

Creates for

goals Rasmus assisted on

From official goal credits - scorer + assists on every goal, all season.

Recent form · last 10 games

4 pts · 1 G · 3 A · 11 shots in last 10Cooling off(-0.4 P/GP vs prior 5)

vs COL

0P

0G 0A

vs COL 03-22

0G 0A · 2 shots · 20:10 TOI

@ STL

0P

0G 0A

@ STL 03-24

0G 0A · 1 shots · 16:32 TOI

@ UTA

2P

1G 1A

@ UTA 03-26

1G 1A · 2 shots · 19:42 TOI

@ VGK

0P

0G 0A

@ VGK 03-28

0G 0A · 1 shots · 21:25 TOI

vs PHI

1P

0G 1A

vs PHI 03-31

0G 1A · 0 shots · 21:14 TOI

@ NJD

1P

0G 1A

@ NJD 04-02

0G 1A · 2 shots · 18:56 TOI

vs BUF

0P

0G 0A

vs BUF 04-04

0G 0A · 1 shots · 20:25 TOI

@ NYR

0P

0G 0A

@ NYR 04-05

0G 0A · 1 shots · 21:06 TOI

@ TOR

0P

0G 0A

@ TOR 04-08

0G 0A · 0 shots · 20:01 TOI

@ PIT

0P

0G 0A

@ PIT 04-11

0G 0A · 1 shots · 15:35 TOI

Tile tint = points that night · underline = shot volume (full bar = 8+ shots) · oldest on the left

The Territory

attacking → · every recorded touch, normalized to one end

Goal On goal Missed/blocked▲ takeaway▽ giveaway■ hit＋ block◯ faceoff dot (size = wins)354 events shown

The office: the right point - 2 of 5 goals live there

Playmaking gravity: 17 touches that produced a teammate shot within 3s

Defensive floor: 128 blocks · 23 steals inside the d-zone

NHL career · regular season

Season	Team	GP	G	A	P	+/−
2019-20	Toronto Maple Leafs	28	1	7	8	-7
2020-21	Toronto Maple Leafs	9	0	4	4	6
2021-22	Toronto Maple Leafs	51	5	11	16	9
2022-23	Toronto Maple Leafs	52	4	16	20	10
2022-23	Washington Capitals	19	3	12	15	-7
2023-24	Washington Capitals	68	3	20	23	-13
2024-25	Washington Capitals	82	4	26	30	13
2025-26	Washington Capitals	73	5	24	29	4
Career	2 teams	382	25	120	145	15